"I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do."
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"I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out."
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"I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life."
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"Some people are stuck in tedious things, like their jobs, and they are bored. Other people experience one stressful thing after another."
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"Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged."
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"Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building."
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"There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life."
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"I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else."
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"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress."
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"I'm lonely! I'm bored!"
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"I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds."
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"I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored."
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"The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored."
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"Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull."
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"The only boring people I know are bored people."
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"I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot."
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"The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it."
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"I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me."
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"Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap."
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"One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'"
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