"God was bored by him."
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"People will go into a relationship, if it's a brand new relationship, it's so exciting because it's something brand new, it's variety, it's different. And you're so excited by the feelings. And what most people try to do because they don't want to lose that, they try to control it to make it certain. And if they make it so certain then you become bored in the relationship. It's a delicate balance."
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"Anything I have ever learned of any consequence, I have learned from Black people. I have never been bored by any Black person, ever."
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"I have complete freedom, and there's no way to get pigeonholed or bored. What could be better than that?"
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"...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean."
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"I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact."
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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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"I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?"
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"Getting bored is not allowed."
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"We always get bored with those whom we bore."
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"I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them."
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"Dead or not, you must be bored with women telling you how you look like the hottest, most exotic wet dream they’ve ever had. No wonder the thought of you, grapes, and some scented massage oils crossed my mind – and if you drop that towel again, I’m going to need a cold shower."
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"I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction."
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"No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life."
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"Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions."
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"I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead."
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"If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise."
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"By the time everyone catches up with you, you're bored."
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"I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored."
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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