"I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch."
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"We stand before God's wonder and yet we are disinterested and bored. This should not be."
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"If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there."
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"Work is making a living out of being bored."
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"I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made."
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"I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. … I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,’ then I was bored with it, so I moved on."
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"There is one quality that characterizes all of us who deal with the sciences of the earth and its life - we are never bored."
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"I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish."
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"Only the boring get bored"
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"Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again."
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"What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?"
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"Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all."
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"I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive."
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"I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears."
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"If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance."
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"Probably, if you are successful in this world you are stressed, and if you are a failure, you are bored!"
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"People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger."
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"Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read."
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"Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began."
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"It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before."
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