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Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
Raoul Vaneigem
World
Starvation
Entails
Boredom
Risk
Shall
Die
Dying
Wants
Which
Who
Guarantee
I have a very low tolerance for boredom and often think I would have missed out on books entirely if I'd grown up in the Internet and video game age. Now I enjoy books for people of all ages, including children.
Rick Yancey
Game
Age
People
Internet
Tolerance
Enjoy
Think
Books
Out
Would
Boredom
Entirely
Missed
Up
Very
Often
Children
Low
Video
Video Game
Ages
Including
Grown
Now
Grown-Up
'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'
Rob Manuel
Class
Space
Somewhere
Back
Paper
Boredom
Born
Developers
Thus
Passing
Chicken
Middle
While
Forth
Helmet
Ink
Designs
Started
Two
The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.
Robert Lopez
Creative
Frustration
Creative Process
Every
Boredom
Temptation
Over
Self-Doubt
Always
Been
Quit
Process
Fuel
Ever
Start
Years later, when I was working as a trolley wally in a supermarket, I tackled the boredom by talking to the customers in as many different accents as I could manage. I started with one that I didn't think would alert any suspicion - generic Asian - then moved on to Irish, Welsh, Australian and American.
Romesh Ranganathan
Think
Later
Would
Boredom
Tackled
Supermarket
Could
Generic
Accents
Talking
Welsh
Years
Australian
Irish
American
Manage
Any
Moved
Suspicion
Moved On
Different
Asian
Customers
Then
Working
Many
Started
Alert
Boredom is your imagination calling to you.
Sherry Turkle
You
Imagination
Boredom
Calling
Your
Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.
Simon Cowell
Rules
Boredom
Like
Equal
I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.
Susan Orlean
News
Training
Thanks
Approach
Finally
Phobia
Flying
Bad
Boredom
Bad News
Habit
Retain
Studied
Weird
Like
Overcame
Learned
Sort
Former
Aviation
Fascination
Now
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.
Tom Hodgkinson
You
Situation
Pleasure
Boredom
Idleness
Turn
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse.
Tom Hodgkinson
Life
Work
Punk
Rejection
Worse
Sign
Rant
Boredom
Morals
Arguably
Since
Bourgeois
Protest
Got
Improved
Scream
Against
Then
Things
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
Virginia Woolf
Boredom
Kingdom
Legitimate
Philanthropic
I've only done a handful of things in my life that have stood out. The rest is just broth: mistakes and boredom.
Viv Albertine
Life
Rest
My Life
Mistakes
Out
Boredom
Only
Handful
Done
Stood
Just
Things
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin
Experience
Bird
Dream
Boredom
Drives
Him
Leaves
Egg
Away
I did nine episodes of 'John Doe.' I died of boredom.
William Forsythe
Nine
Boredom
John
Did
Died
Episodes
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William Gaddis
Me
Books
Boredom
Some
Through
Writers
Come
Beyond
Without
How
Get
Dying
Across
Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
William Weld
Desperate
Press
Boredom
Forgiven
Anyone
Much
Working
Who
When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities.
Yasmine Hamdan
Music
Me
Somebody
Become
Despair
Out
Boredom
About
Allowed
Identities
Felt
Got
Doing
Passionate
Artist
Different
Who
Her
Started
I was a housewife, I suppose, and luckily I have a very high boredom threshold.
Katharine Gun
Threshold
High
Boredom
Suppose
Housewife
Very
Luckily
I yearn for intellectual sustenance on vacation but want, of course, to avoid tedium or boredom. I want to read something that will entertain me but also help me appreciate what I am seeing.
Max Boot
Me
I Am
Will
Entertain
Boredom
Seeing
Something
Also
Read
Course
Am
Yearn
Intellectual
Want
Sustenance
Avoid
Help
Vacation
Appreciate
Tedium
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