"There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
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"I don't think I'm boring."
"You don't want the truth. Truth is boring."
"Everything intelligent is so boring."
"I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off."
"The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!"
"The one unforgivable sin is to be boring."
"You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested and ask questions of other people."
"You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring."
"Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities."
"If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours."
"Some people are so boring that they make you waste an entire day in five minutes."
"Nothing's boring if it's in your soul."
"I lead such a boring life."
"Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring."
"To me, the difference between New York and London is that things are boring and staid in London. But even the sh-tty diner and bars here are kind of exciting for me. Downtown is funky, West Village is beautiful with the cobbled streets, but I love going uptown because you then you go, "F-ck, I'm in New York!" You see all the skyscrapers."
"I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
"You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well."
"I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care."
"It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over."