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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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

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"I really don't want to go in a place and to repeat the stuff like to watch Limitless all day, one moment I get bored I need to focus on something else."

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