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Boring Quotes - Page 10

I came to America from Canada because Canada is stultifyingly boring and incredibly hypocritical.

"Vice's Shane Smith on What's Wrong With Canada, Facebook and Occupy Wall Street" by Jeff Bercovici, www.forbes.com. January 3, 2012.

The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.

Patricia Highsmith (2001). “People Who Knock on the Door”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

"The talented Ms Highsmith", www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2000.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

"NATE SILVER: As Tempting As It Would Be To 'Drop The Mic' And Leave A Winner, I'll Be Back In 2014 And 2016" by Walter Hickey, www.businessinsider.com. November 14, 2012.

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.63, Random House

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

"The Artist: the silent film they said no one wanted to see". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press