The company found success by making something boring into something cool.
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Chances are, Bieber chipped his tooth doing something boring, but who really knows?
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How about looking at something "boring" like the universal law of price discovery through forces of demand and supply?
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Startup founders don't usually pitch their ideas by admitting that they're fixing something "boring," but it seems to work for RevenueCat's Jacob Eiting.
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Do something boring and healthy today, like floss or drink prune juice, to inspire the Moon in Capricorn to send you good luck.
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This testifies to another psychological phenomenon: expose a group of arty people to something boring and incomprehensible and they'll swear it was magnificent.
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They claim to want a real Hole, to want an experience, but whatever they see is immediately converted into something boring, familiar, into chitchat.
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This might be difficult for a Tuesday, but I'd rather take a chance on an interesting and amusing clue rather than settle for something boring and overused.
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Instead, she learned to start a conversation by rambling on about something boring—usually the weather—in order to ease her way into the person's attention in an unthreatening manner.
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It will most likely be something boring and technical, rather than a super sexy suggestion, like playing Barry White over the national radio or giving out tax credits for lingerie purchases.
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Would we end up in some economic recession or war that would require the companies and institutions investing in humanoid robotics to stop wasting money and just ship something boring and useful?
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You wouldn't be the first, and if you're truly out of ideas, "Arya" or "Tyrion" is a more interesting choice than something boring like "Jane" or "Steve," which is just plain Uncreative.
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Nos. 230 to 230 - Everyone who said something boring: Slightly smaller pads, tweaking the offside rules, more consistent officiating, changing the icing rules … These aren't bad ideas, necessarily, but come on guys.
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In an essay about WeWork and other troubled start-ups, John Schwartz wrote that the best way to survive an exciting economic time might be to stash your money in something boring.
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It's as if being "intellectual" or "thinking" is something boring, as if there was no thought involved in making Pretty Woman, or as if there is no thought involved in writing the effective scripts that Hollywood movies have.
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That's probably just me being self-centered, but it's really fun to sit and build things with magnetic tiles, or make snowmen out of Play-Doh, and way less fun to watch blankly while my kid does something boring and repetitive with a less interactive toy.
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On the listener's end, the circumstances adding up to a "sad" listening experience can be practical and not sad at all: the need for a focused and isolated stretch of time that is all his; the need for a bracing effect in order to focus while doing something boring, like being in transit; or the need to re-enact the emotions around something awful, which paradoxically makes you feel alive — a death, a breakup, a rejection, a failure.
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Let's say they've got some confidential information and they label it something like "dictionaries" or something boring so that if somebody gets ahold of your laptop and finds this folder they're not going to be intrigued because it's not labeled something like "love letters" or "sexts" or something like that, so there could be a masking of it as a way to connote its privacy and hiddenness in a folder with a fake name that could suggest the same kind of thing that putting a box of letters under a bed in a box might do.
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The cast "grew to trust his instincts so completely", making fewer and fewer suggestions. Co-producer James Schamus stated that Lee also adapted by becoming more verbal and willing to express his opinion. Lee became known for his "frightening" tendency not to "mince words". He often had the cast do numerous takes for a scene to get the perfect shot, and was not afraid to call something "boring" if he disliked it.
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The name "Bunbury" was chosen by festival founder Bill Donabedian after he heard the word used in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest. He chose the word because he thought it sounded whimsical and he liked the definition: "to have a made up excuse to get out of doing something boring." In Wilde's play, the character Algernon utilizes the fictional character named Bunbury as an excuse for getting out of undesirable situations such as family events. Not to be confused with the Western Australian city of Bunbury.
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