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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

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"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."

Wendell Phillips, American Activist

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"Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."

John Mortimer, English Novelist

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"Even boredom has its crises."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."

Walter Annenberg, American Businessman

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"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."

"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."

"Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life."

"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."

"Even boredom has its crises."

"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."

"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."

"Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability."

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"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."

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"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

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