"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."

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"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."

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"Without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she's dancing and she's bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Boredom, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Interest

"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian Actress

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"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

Guy Debord, French Writer

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"Boredom " the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing " is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of humankind. Tedium, a fundamental angst of humankind, arises from human beings' ability to perceive time and our attempts to derive meaning from our personal existence."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Boredom, Time, Humanity, Existence

"Extreme boredom provides its own antidote."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Boredom, Emotion, Opposition, Reaction

"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

Arthur Helps, British Historian

Boredom, Dying, Sense

"The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat."

Tom Kite, American Athlete

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"We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Boredom, Social, Judgment, Emotion

"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."

Manly Hall, Canadian Philosopher

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"I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way."

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"Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer."

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"If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."

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"I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile."

Time

"I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't."

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"In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting."

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"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."

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