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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

~Adam Ant

Topics: Album Boredom Cause Different Each Good Got Like Look Lose Low Make People Problem Really Records Say Sound Suicide They Say Threshold Wanted Which

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Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

~Al Boliska

Topics: Airline Boredom Hours Interrupted Moments Stark Terror Travel

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

~Aldous Huxley

Topics: Accepts Agreeable Almost Boredom Excessive Finds Freedom He His Liberty Merely Painful Philosophically Pleasure Rather Symbol Than Traveller True Your

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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

~Alex Kapranos

Topics: Band Before Being Big Big Part Boredom Done Part Sick You

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The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

~Alia Shawkat

Topics: Boredom Child Got Growing Growing Up Main Main Thing Suburb Thing Up You

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After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to school I thought about going into real estate law. I probably would have made a lot more money and died of boredom by now.

~Alice Dreger

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Boredom is usually what spurs either bad decisions or any decision at all.

~Amy Seimetz

Topics: Any Bad Boredom Decision Decisions Either Spurs

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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

~Anatole France

Topics: Boredom Despair Humanity Lies Perish Without Would

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Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you're into it.

~Angela Duckworth

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It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

~Anish Kapoor

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