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Alexandre Dumas

Novelist, playwright

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

Boredom

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Jack Kerouac

Novelist, Poet

Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone

Boredom - Crying - Man - Meaning - Realization - Wants

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Stephen King

Writer

Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.

Boredom - Creativity - Drive - Making - Show - Teaching - Trickery - Wellness

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

Boredom - Man

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Boredom - Man - Memory - Someday

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Ricky Gervais

Comedian, Actor, Director

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

Boredom - Remembering - Taking

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Selena Gomez

Singer, Actress, Producer

To be honest Im quite boring I love to go bowling and to the moviesWhen it comes to my wardrobe I think I dress like a 30 year old woman

Boredom - Honesty

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Keith Richards

Musician, Singer, Songwriter

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Boredom - Giving - Meaning - Pianist

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Voltaire

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Boredom - Reading

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

Most people are boring and stupid.

Boredom

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military Officer, Former President of the United States

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Boredom - Patriotism - Politics - Whole

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historian, Novelist

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Boredom - Human - Man

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Christopher Hitchens

Author, Columnist, Essayist, Orator, Journalist, Social Critic

In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

Boredom - End - Finding - Unfairness

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Actress, Producer, Designer

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

Boredom - Feelings - Marriage

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Jay Leno

Comedian, Actor, Writer, Producer, TV Host

Kerry was here in Los Angeles. He was courting the Spanish vote by speaking Spanish. And he showed people he could be boring in two languages.

Boredom - Linguistics - Voting

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Kurt Cobain

Singer, Songwriter, Musician

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

Beginner - Boredom

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Writer, Poet, Philologist

To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!

Boredom - Crying - Fall - Loneliness - Loss - Man

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Roald Dahl

Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Boredom

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Woody Allen

Director, Writer, Actor, Comedian

The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why some people feel there is no God.

Boredom - Feelings

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Katharine Hepburn

Actress

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

Boredom

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Boredom - Monster

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Christopher Hitchens

Author, Columnist, Essayist, Orator, Journalist, Social Critic

Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they don't mind that they're obvious, their point is made.

Boredom - Making - Mindset

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

Boredom - Wellness

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Otto von Bismarck

Former Chancelor of the German Empire

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

Boredom - Making

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P. J. O'Rourke

Political Satirist, Journalist

I like to take things that are boring-but-important and try to make them interesting. That was definitely what I was after with Eat The Rich.

Boredom - Trial

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Voltaire

Writer, Historian, Philosopher

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

Boredom

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J. R. R. Tolkien

Writer, Poet, Philologist

Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said: Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!

Blessing - Boredom - Endurance

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Quentin Tarantino

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer

If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.

Boredom - Cooking

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

Boredom - Lie - Travel

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William Wilberforce

Politician

To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate

Accomplishment - Alleviating - Boredom

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John Steinbeck

Writer, War Correspondent

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Boredom - Living

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J. K. Rowling

Novelist, Screenwriter, Producer

Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking.

Boredom - Death

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