Top 100 When Bored Quotes

#1. When bored of sitting, move! When bored of moving, sit! Balance your life or there will remain neither moving nor sitting in your life but only falling!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#2. I'm most dangerous when bored." ~Drahomira, vampire

Sherry Rentschler

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#3. My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.

Robert M. Pirsig

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#4. When tired, when bored, when happy, when unhappy, when night, when day, when cold, when hot, when nervous, when relaxed you always need music to fly into another dimension, the Dimension of Mindlessness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#5. We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of novelty. Our muse needs to stay seductive to keep our hands doing the right things.

Robert Genn

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#6. When bored, find a little cat and watch it; when very bored, find two little cats and watch them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#7. I'm the kind of person, who, when bored or unhappy, either drinks myself into oblivion or cooks very unhealthy things; Sally is the kind of person who, when bored or unhappy, goes jogging or cleans the bathroom with a toothbrush or matriculates at rabbinical school.

Julie Powell

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#8. it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.

Daniel Kahneman

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#9. Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.

Robert Downey Jr.

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#10. There are oceans of things to discover, to explore, to learn, to invent, to create in this world; especially with its modern possibilities offered. So, I don't understand when people complain they're bored and have nothing to do.

Sahara Sanders

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#11. When I got bored, I conjugated verbs. Kissing and conjugating go well together. They're both French. No.

Rebekah Crane

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#12. When I moved out to Los Angeles to get some film and television work, and couldn't get any ... I became a little isolated, a little terrified, and it's a good place to get writing, because you're so bored. So I wrote a few screenplays, and people notice those.

Clark Gregg

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#13. People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything.

J.D. Salinger

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#14. If you're bored tonight why don't you write down everything that comes to mind when you hear the word toothpaste?

Jaclyn Moriarty

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#15. I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded for it; I get gushy, especially when kids tell me they expected to be bored by my books, but weren't.

Mary Roach

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#16. Yet is it not the heart but the members of play that elevate us above the beasts: the fingers with which we touch the clavichord or the flute, the tongue with which we jest and lie and seduce. Lacking members of play, what is there left for beasts to do when they are bored but sleep?

J.M. Coetzee

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#17. Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.

Sharon Stone

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#18. Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know?

Caroline Dhavernas

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#19. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

H.P. Lovecraft

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#20. A woman has so many facets, and when you create an image, you have to play with all the different moments of your femininity, not just one thing, because everybody can get bored.

Monica Bellucci

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#21. Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored is mooning about and doing nothing.

Aidan Chambers

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#22. When even the analysts are bored, it's time to start buying.

Peter Lynch

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#23. I don't mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking - I'm bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please?

Ben Aaronovitch

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#24. He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.

Gustave Flaubert

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#25. Israel has its attractions. It's the most dramatic country in the world. Everybody's engaged. Everybody argues. When I leave Israel, I get a little bit bored, you know?

Shimon Peres

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#26. I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

Zayn Malik

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#27. When you write a manuscript, it feels like being in a relationship with someone. You'll hate it, get bored with it, be pissed of, like you just want to break up. But, just like any relationship, you will fall in love again and again, like you don't want to lose it.

Alvi Syahrin

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#28. I watch all the classic films that film people say that you ought to have seen, and I try to watch things in the cinema when they come out, just to keep my eye on the competition. I'm bored when I'm not working.

Sam Riley

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#29. Yet again, isn't there something terrible in randomness - the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it's just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.

Aeschylus

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#30. He doesn't quite kiss me, even though he's close enough to. I look at him, loving the quiet and the quirk of his mouth when he smiles, thinking I could stick around this guy for always and be happy, thinking I could count his eyelashes and not get bored.

Hannah Johnson

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#31. When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.

Katy B

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#32. Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it's because we are easily bored.

Neil Gaiman

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#33. If one of the most interesting places to be is your inner world, you will never be bored when you are alone.

Sahara Sanders

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#34. There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

H.G.Wells

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#35. Why is there always this twitchiness, when you introduce a man to a woman friend, about whether the man will be bored or put off?

Alice Munro

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#36. Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life.

Bruce Dickinson

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#37. Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.

James Altucher

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#38. I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

Pamela Anderson

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#39. Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

William Inge

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#40. You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Neil Gaiman

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#41. When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#42. Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.

Larry Niven

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#43. She put that book down and picked up Ellis. Now, it is hardly possible to be bored by a book on sex when one is fifteen, but she was restless because this collection of interesting facts seemed to have so little to do with her own problems.

Doris Lessing

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#44. When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.

Sara Blakely

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#45. Never be bored. Energy lives off of attention. When you are bored you get drained.

Frederick Lenz

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#46. If you can do something when it's not fun, even when you're exhausted and bored and want to give up, then it just might be your calling.

Jeff Goins

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#47. How to follow orders when you're bordering on nausea and you're bored and insecure and dwarfed by fear.

Kate Tempest

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#48. You've bitten her, but she's not yours." "Yet." "Looking for a challenge?" Baojia shrugged. "I hate being bored." The earth vampire just laughed. When

Elizabeth Hunter

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#49. For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.

Roger Waters

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#50. Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

John Marsden

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#51. Self Realization is when you dont have to think twice before acting and you never get bored in life.

Girish Kohli

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#52. So she doesn't... service men?"...
"Only when she gets bored, or so she says."
...
"Linnet -"
"Seems very brave and very capable... I liked her.

Andrea Cremer

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#53. There I found my sole comfort: Jesus, my only friend. I could talk only to Him. Talking to other people bored me, even when we spoke about religion. I felt it better to speak to God than about Him. There's often so much self-love involved in chatter about spiritual things!

John Beevers

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#54. Doing nothing was much more productive than people thought; Jackson often had his most profound insights when he appeared to be entirely idle. He didn't get bored, he just went into a nothing kind of place.

Kate Atkinson

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#55. The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.

Ben Edlund

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#56. When the world began, there were no such things as monsters. Demons were just fallen angels who, booted out of Heaven and bored with Hell, wandered the Earth sticking little girls' pigtails in inkwells and sinking the occasional continent.

Richard Kadrey

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#57. Don't let people treat you like a cigarette, they only use you when they're bored and step on you when they're done. Be like drugs, let them die for you.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

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#58. When we get into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don't want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

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#59. Writing is my own personal therapy. It's cheaper than a real shrink and I get to kill people off when I grow bored of them.

Jack Tate

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#60. Never assume that someone likes you by their sweetNess.Sometimes you are an option when they are bored

Prince Simus

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#61. When you feel bored, pump your adrenaline!

Toba Beta

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#62. To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

Neel Mukherjee

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#63. And that is the beautiful thing about friendship: we can take liberties, we can show our frailer side, we can afford the vast luxury of giving way to our boredom when we are bored, our anger when we are angry, our peckishness when we feel downhearted.

Sydney J. Harris

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#64. Nostalgia is a powerful drug to which intelligent and sensitive people resort when they are bored or frightened by the times they are living in; and comforting doses are increased as their dislike of the present is reinforced by dread of the future.

John Gloag

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#65. Thank God for my ADD. I would have killed myself along time ago, but I got bored of it when something else diverted me.

Jason Hartnett

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#66. For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story that will keep the audience engaged?" A great story does that: it's not exactly what you expect.

Richard Shepard

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#67. When I was really little, I wanted to be a taxi driver or a bus driver; I loved the fact that I could play my own music when I wanted. But I can't imagine actually doing that now; I think I'd get bored.

Eliza Doolittle

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#68. There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.

Garry Shandling

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#69. A girl who pays attention is very cool. It's really hard to pay attention to someone. I understand. I get it. I get bored a lot when I'm talking to people, but I try. So I'd like for the girl to try, too.

Chris D'Elia

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#70. When you hear extraneous noise, they are bored in some way, so it makes me upset. Even coughing, I find, is passive-aggressive, usually.

Joshua Bell

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#71. And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.

Aleister Crowley

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#72. Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.

Brian P. Cleary

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#73. When I was a kid, we sat around the house. If I got bored, I'd have to figure out something to do.

Ben Falcone

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#74. When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't go to university. I had an inferiority complex because I didn't train. Then it gets tiring. And you do get bored of it.

Helena Bonham Carter

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#75. I revisit old favorites like 'Buffy' and 'Battlestar Galactica' when I'm bored. I am obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love TV.

Jessica Valenti

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#76. When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Eric Hoffer

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#77. Piper, we do not kill people when we're bored. Even if there are dead people all around us.

Emily Rose

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#78. Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

Graham Norton

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#79. When you have a lot of books,you don't have to worry about getting bored unless you don't know the essence of reading.Reading is not just about reading,you have to use your imagination,make the characters alive and be one of them,feel them ... and presto,you'll never be alone!

Mareez Reyes

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#80. No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.

Joyce Cary

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#81. It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.

Jessica Raine

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#82. There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

Gaston Bachelard

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#83. Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.

Avril Lavigne

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#84. Nobody writes down stories." [Ananna]
"They do when they're trapped at sea and bored senseless." [Naji]

Cassandra Rose Clarke

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#85. I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult book. When I get bored with one, I move to the other, and then I go back.

Jacqueline Woodson

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#86. Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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#87. I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.

Kate Christensen

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#88. Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out.

Jon Gordon

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#89. You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

Anna Friel

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#90. I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Joey Santiago

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#91. When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

Rob Zombie

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#92. What do you do when you're bored? You don't have
internet or TV. Do you just sit around all day and think about how hot I am?

Colleen Hoover

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#93. Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

P.G. Wodehouse

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#94. Anyone can be bored or unfulfilled at virtually any job. How one chooses to respond to boredom is key. Most women are resourceful: when faced with boredom, they find a way out. That's an essential skill. Those who don't have it will suffer, to be sure, but that is not society's problem.

Suzanne Venker

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#95. FYI, this book is not that serious. This is meant to be read when super bored, then forgotten fifteen minutes later. It could be read cover-to-cover during one medium-to-severe case of diarrhea.

David Spade

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#96. You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

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#97. I tend to bake when I'm upset. Or bored ... or premenstrual ... or if it's Tuesday. I'll use any excuse.

Molly Harper

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#98. When a man meets a woman who seems too perfect, too sweet, or too agreeable, he tends to become bored very quickly.

Sherry Argov

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#99. God knows when I'm going to retire. I think I'm going to be bored.

Mark Roberts

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#100. I was never much of a reader when I was a boy. Books bored me. I liked action. But I spent a lot of time thinking about things. I'd imagine all kinds of situations and how I would handle them.

Ray Kroc

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