Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
quote by Harry S. Truman
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
quote by Marlene Dietrich
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I feel, as a person, very uninteresting.
quote by Jeremy Piven
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No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
quote by Murray Kempton
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
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These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.
quote by James Van Allen
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There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those are standard ones.
If anything is uninteresting,
Be it cinema, story or people,
It is not that these are substandard ones
But that you are misfit to their standard.
12.02.2012
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
quote by F.H. Bradley
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The State and Property are the great embodiments of possessiveness; it is for this reason that they are against life, and that they issue in war. Possession means taking or keeping some good thing which another is prevented from enjoying; creation means putting into the world a good thing which otherwise no one would be able to enjoy. Since the material goods of the world must be divided among the population, and since some men are by nature brigands, there must be defensive possession, which will be regulated, in a good community, by some principle of impersonal justice. But all this is only the preface to a good life or good political institutions, in which creation will altogether outweigh possession, and distributive justice will exist as an uninteresting matter of course. The supreme principle, both in politics and in private life, should be to promote all that is creative, and so to diminish the impulses and desires that center round possession.
quote by Bertrand Russell
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The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.
quote by Kevin J. Anderson
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I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.
quote by Crispin Glover
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
quote by Oscar Wilde
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
quote by G.K. Chesterton
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I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
quote by Donald Norman
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
G.K. Chesterton in Heretics (1905)
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
quote by Ezra Pound
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Being straight
after the night the lady purs to the man: '
Do you want me to be truthful? '
the man whispers 'what? '
She gathers herself and says' I found you
not as interesting as you have professed.
A highly educated mid level executive.'
He sighs 'Blah'
She interjects: : 'Could that be the reason
why you have been so uninteresting? '
poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Disparage
Teacher, dear teacher
epileptic with knowledge,
spitting and apprehensive.
Enthused;
with a sweet lull
grounding mounts of will power,
mastered a way to make
brilliance uninteresting.
poem by Abhyudai Dhawan
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When You're Ready
This verse isn’t about sex or love,
no, no you know it’s sweet and good,
tell me what keeps you up at night,
tell me why you’re so full of fright,
don’t say it’s the surrounding neighbourhood,
what makes you think you’re misunderstood?
Did someone hurt you?
If so, what did they do?
Are you ill or have some form of injury?
Is this what makes you lash out in fury?
Maybe you’re trapped in a nightmare,
and it’s all to much for you to bear,
there is no need to lock yourself in a prison cell,
just remember I’m here, if you need someone to tell,
I can take it, for we’re going steady,
so please confide in me when you’re ready…
Did they say you’re bland and uninteresting?
Then let me tell you that they’re only jesting,
please don’t fall in to your pit again,
let me help you unburden the pain,
you don’t have to cut us all out,
just tell me what this is all about.
I am not your family, spouse or heir,
but you know deep down that I care.
Have you wasted your entire fortune?
Is that what makes you stare at the moon?
There is no need to keep it to yourself,
contained within your world of stealth,
don’t tell the whole world to go to hell,
for I’m here when you think you can tell,
I can’t help you until you tell me,
so here I am; when you’re ready…
poem by Dale Mullock
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