"It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring."
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"I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader."
"You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you."
"Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams."
"I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring."
"By any rational metric, I am boring."
"For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced."
"You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, "I am serious" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, "You're not serious; you're boring as hell.""
"I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue."
"You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing."
"Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring."
"Science is taught like the history of science, and it's boring. Doing science fair, anything that's project-based learning, that involves field trips, that's really valuable."