Top 190 Bothered Quotes

I can’t be bothered anymore about giving songs titles.

When people pitch me their ideas in a T-shirt and jeans it shows they can’t be bothered.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn’t scare me. It’s inevitable – I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I’m not that bothered.

It never bothered me that people made fun of my passion for gold… I would never feel bad when people ridiculed me for my fascination with gold.

Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn’t be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.

I’m very lazy when it comes to taking care of my underwear. I should hand wash it all, but I can’t be bothered. So instead, I keep ruining stuff by putting it in the washing machine.

Bollywood is an industry that is closer to making more entertainment-based films than anything else because people here are bothered about money.

Luckily, I’m not one of those people who wants to be young; it’s never bothered me.

How do you hold on to the idea that you are good and kind and deserving of love when the whole world thinks you’re evil? It’s really disorienting to see this character with your face and your name and your details catch internet wildfire. It really bothered me.

I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump’s campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me.

Guys want to be cool without appearing to be bothered about trends.

I knew so many people were coming up to me because they knew who I was, not because they were fans of my music. That bothered me because I don’t want to be a celebrity; I want to be an artist.

Whether it comes to media pressure or anything, I’ve become a bit laid back and actually not bothered.

Everyone’s great in New York, but it’s family-oriented. I don’t get bothered.

I never mind doing press; it’s never bothered me.

Turns out it’s bloody hard to make a sculpture that looks like a human head, so I’ve not bothered. Realism is for squares.

Nobody is interested in how many claps and whistles he received for his performance. All they are bothered about is how much money they are getting.

Obviously I am not bothered about men’s fashion – is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?

It’s not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don’t know what to do with them or can’t be bothered.

Sensationalism only works for so long. Think of something like the Kony 2012 campaign. Its sensationalized, viral language got people all hot and bothered, but at the end of the day, there was so much it got wrong about the situation, and that did more damage to their cause than what they got right.

Athletes don’t like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

I don’t mind people looking at me. That’s never bothered me. I don’t want them looking at me in my house; now that would bother me.

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing.

What I do remember about first grade and that year was that it was very lonely. I didn’t have any friends, and I wasn’t allowed to go to the cafeteria or play on the playground. What bothered me most was the loneliness in school every day.

It bothered me that women were taught they can’t be beautiful just being themselves – it filled me with rage.

I had hoped to do a lot more to help promote science in this country and in Europe, but I cannot see how that can happen. I have become toxic. I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs.

With the advent of multiplexes, the audiences coming in are not bothered by who’s in the film. We need not run after stars.

I’m a married woman, so I’m not bothered what other men think of me – but I still want James to fancy me.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

I’m enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It’s just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why?

I don’t consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.

It’s getting harder as I get more known. Even though it’s my break, I couldn’t really go out and get drunk – because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I’m not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

You know, for years I used to read about myself. They’d say, ‘He has a temper’ or ‘He’s a bully’ or something like that, and it always bothered me.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn’t have bothered me.

I’ve never been bothered about being the highest wicket-taker in the world or the best South African bowler in the world.

I’ve read crime fiction all my life. A thing that’s bothered me about crime fiction is that it’s generally about one or two people, but there’s not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren’t there to teach your children the lessons that you haven’t bothered to teach them at home yourself.

We look up to Jessica Alba. I loved that something bothered her, and she created products around it and built an empire around it.

In fact, Salman Khan is a kind of an actor who doesn’t take anyone’s limelight while shooting. He is a very secure actor. He has some kind of aura around him. He is least bothered as to which actor is getting how much screen space.

A long time ago, a sports reporter wrote that I wasn’t strong in the free-skate, that I was more of a short-program skater. And that bothered me because I work so hard every day just for a person to judge me on a couple of bad skates and deem me a bad free skater. That’s absurd!

I remember cleaning boots at Millwall on £250 a week and feeling like a millionaire. I’d made it then. At that time, if I never played for another club it wouldn’t have bothered me too much because I’d made it with a football team in England.

One of the only things that bothered me with WWE and being on every week was blowing off so many great storylines so fast, just out of necessity.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

I remember somebody asking me in an interview years ago if I would be interested in playing Jason Bourne. I laughed: I didn’t think anybody would want to see me run around with a machine gun. It always stayed in the back of my head that I had reacted like that. It bothered me.

I can’t be bothered with reality shows; I’d rather go and look through someone’s letter box.

Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

I used to hate getting dressed, getting in front of the camera and walking down the red carpet. It bothered me because I felt like I couldn’t be what they wanted me to be. Now it’s still not my favorite thing, but I get through it a lot easier because I know that my work brings value to who I am.

They know you’re not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That’s a reassuring thing.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.

I didn’t know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn’t have bikes. It never really bothered me, but I could have any book. I loved school; I loved learning. Yeah, I never cared for possessions. I still don’t, really.

The best advice is to get on with it. I’m very prone to falling into depressions – not clinical, just ‘can’t be bothered.’ It’s such a waste of time.

I was born in America but all of my friends’ parents, everybody’s parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

I don’t get bothered by people saying what they say. I’m a happy person and I’m happy with my looks. I’m not an insecure person. I believe if somebody chooses plastic surgery it should be for themselves, not for anyone else.

I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.

I think it’s really important as a parent to be present, and I really, really worked hard because my dad struggled with that. And it really bothered me as a kid that I would want to share something with him, and he didn’t hear me.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

People think unless you have loops and electronics and so on, you must be in your 50s. I quite like a lot of things that have loops and sequencers, but I couldn’t really be bothered.

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

I realize that sometimes I get bothered when I see the world acting like the world. Did you hear what I said? The world is supposed to act like the world, and God tells us that every generation gets more wicked, so why the surprise? Maybe we have some word to swallow ourselves.

I can’t be bothered to learn Final Draft. I’m not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I just want to sing the melody and write the lyrics.

The criticism from the media never really bothered me. I’d correct it when I can, but that’s their job. If stuff wasn’t personal, then it really didn’t bother me.

I mean, there’s nothing wrong with a bit of glam, but do you know what? I’m not bothered about getting a reservation in the latest restaurant.

There’s something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there’s a goodness. America doesn’t want to take over the world; in many ways, we don’t want to be bothered by the rest of the world.

That was how we categorised ourselves in the dressing room – you were either a nerd or a Julio. Julios have got to look perfect – the hair has got to be perfect, they’ve got to have the right gear on, it’s all about their appearance. The nerds weren’t bothered about how they looked.

The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn’t be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don’t regret it.

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything – social, sexual, emotional – they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

Punches never bothered me that much.

For four years doing that same character all the time kind of bothered me. Butit opened up a lot of doors.

Everything Mousasi says only motivates me. I have a win over him, and I think he’s a little bothered by it.

My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money – I’ve never really been bothered about it.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don’t laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that’s not real laughter.

Maybe some people thought I was ‘safe’ so they didn’t really bothered to vote for me at all.

I’m not actually that bothered about the ‘science fiction-ness’ of ‘Doctor Who.’

I’m not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there’s no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

I don’t mind being criticised, because I am not that easy to knock down, and no-one can destroy me. But I am bothered by the stupid people who call me dirty, brainless, and an idiot. You don’t say words like these to someone who you know nothing about.

Comedy relieves you. A lot of times, we think we’re the only people bothered by certain things. Then you hear a comic say, ‘Don’t you hate it when…’ And it’s, ‘Oh, my God! Of course!’

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

Actually, Hollywood is the reverse of what most outsiders think it is. It is not a crazy, nervous place. An actor is less bothered here than he is anywhere else. You can live your life as you please and nobody cares.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Politicians have been downplaying the importance of history as a subject in our schools but, if they had bothered to have a better grasp of history themselves, they might have avoided costly wars. Instead they act like children. The only time that they think matters is their own.

My son is 14. He watches these ‘let’s play’ videos, people playing other in video games. At first, I was bothered by it, I didn’t get it, but at the end of the day, if you go back when I was a kid, I watched much worse. These videos are more entertaining and more interesting than the bad ’80s TV.

The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.

I’m not bothered when other VCs start hiring great designers or start recruiting. That’s the direction I’d like it to go.

I don’t know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

A lot of comedians want people to listen to them. I don’t think we’ve ever been that bothered about whether people would want to listen to us.

I’m not bothered about clothes. Never have been.

I am not bothered about my career graph, as I am someone who doesn’t believe in planning things.

I wasn’t too bothered about watching batsmen when I was growing up.

I didn’t know much about the East End and I didn’t go trudging round to research it – couldn’t be bothered with all that – but my grandmother was a cockney so I used her voice for Dot. I don’t think it sounded very real at the beginning.

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn’t be bothered – that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It’s so off-putting.

For me, this profession is about having a career where you can go on working for 60 years, so I’m not particularly bothered by things to do with fame; I like to think that I just do what I do.

I hadn’t learned to read by third grade, which wasn’t unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn’t see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn’t the least bit bothered – until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

I remember, as a kid, going into other people’s houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing was different. That bothered me. There’s something very mysterious about other families and the way they function.

The older you get, the lesser you are bothered by what others think.

The funny thing is I’m not bothered or sad about being on my own – after all I’ve never had a husband.

I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.

Trolls have never bothered me. I am someone who looks at it and laughs.

I am not bothered what people say. You have always different opinions.

You know what, lots of people are bothered by how I am. They think I’m arrogant! That is the way I am – I’m a very happy man and I love to make people happy.

I really feel sorry for society-labelled ‘pretty’ people who have to prove their personalities because no one can believe they bothered to make one based on how they look.

You can say whatever you want about me, I’m not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that’s a problem.

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

People talk about players who should get more attention, but things like that have never bothered me. If I just play my game, walk out the back door without anybody seeing me, I’m fine with that.

Why didn’t we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?

I’m bothered when people don’t understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.

Sinatra was bothered with issues of anti-Semitism and racism all his life. The song and film he made ‘The House I Live In,’ was a deep message against prejudice and he was very proud to have recorded the song.

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. It’s the only way that I can do anything, even if I’m quite useless. It’s the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, ‘Boy Meets Girl,’ ‘Will Boy Get Girl?’

I’ve played piano since I was probably six or seven, but I stopped when I was about 13, and I couldn’t be bothered to do the exams or learn my scales.

I don’t want to score; as long as I set people up and then they get the goals, that’s all I’m bothered about.

I go into any movie that’s historical fiction thinking, ‘OK, I’m here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it’s a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won’t even be bothered by the opinions. I’ll make my own mind up.’

Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details.

In the year and a half that I’ve been sober, in the comfort of married life, Vogue and I have welcomed our first son and become a family of our own. We are busy, happy, and doing well. My finger is on the pulse and things I never bothered to try to understand make sense to me now.

If I’m on form and I’m not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That’s why I’ve done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.

No one bothered reading the books and understanding – and again, I’m not being high-falutin’ about it – but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.

Earlier, every time I wouldn’t get a roll, I would always take it in my head, and let it under my skin. And I would always get bothered with it.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

I don’t get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.

No, I don’t know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a ‘Three Stooges’ movie, either. But if they’re anything like some men I know, their love for Moe, Larry, and Curly (and an assortment of fourth bananas) is deep, abiding, and unembarrassable. In other words: How could the Farrellys not?

Holding Congressional hearings is the purview of the majority, and during the first years of the Obama administration, Democrats could not be bothered.

When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn’t even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise – not that I would have bothered anyway.

Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

I had the perm because I wanted wash-and-wear hair. I didn’t want to be bothered with it.

If I had five minutes to live, I don’t think I’d be bothered singing a song. I’d be dead, so it won’t really matter. I’d have a glass of wine and a cigarette.

It’s important for me that I’m able to walk around the city without being bothered all the time.

I don’t flinch from darkness, but I’ve always been bothered by what I call gore-nography.

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends… to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn’t even be bothered to get out of bed.

I’ve always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don’t have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.

I’m not a massive fan of 3D. I’ve seen some good 3D, and I’ve seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I think if a film is created for the shock effect of 3D, then it’s a certain type of film that I’m not massively bothered about.

Social distancing means that celebrity parties and gatherings are still a long way off, but I’m not in the least bit bothered about them starting up again.

I directed ‘Death in the Gunj’ which released in 2017. It got very good reviews and a few awards but did not do well at the box-office. But I’m not bothered. I made the film that I wanted to make. It was not a film for everyone.

It’s easy to remember. That’s part of the reason why it’s never surprised me or bothered me that somebody doesn’t know my real name. What’s easier to remember: Danielle Fishel or Topanga? Topanga sticks with you.

I don’t get mobbed in the street or bothered. Well, people do stop and say nice things. ‘I like ‘Endeavour,’ or, ‘I loved The Thick of It.’

Being a mum is something that’s never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

I’ve always been someone who thought it didn’t matter where you were playing. I always shot for the best you could get. It never bothered me if it was small or it was big.

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we’re too busy to be bothered with it.

I hate L.A. Can’t be bothered.

During my days as a cricketer, I used to be so involved with the game, I never bothered to look after my family.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.

When I started giving talks about women’s history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, ‘Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.’ It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

I’m not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

I don’t believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

The plantar fasciitis that I had before it really kinda bothered me when I directly cut on the foot.

Sometimes I say to myself, ‘Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award’, although I’m not that bothered.

Like many other people of my generation, I don’t think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn’t ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on.

Westerns were always my favorite things when I was little. And it always bothered me when cowboys were too clean in movies, or when they wore their guns like they had an outfit on. It always worked better when a guy looked sweaty and smelly; I hadda believe, I hadda believe that.

I’m a fairly unaffected human being. I’m easy to talk to, I hope. I’m not too bothered about the clothes I’m wearing. I’ve been misquoted in interviews as to appear earnest. Which I am not.

There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it’s in all the textbooks.

As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children’s music. I couldn’t find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

I have heard that my Wikipedia entry is completely incorrect, but then again, so is everyone else’s. I haven’t bothered about that.

When someone is bothered by someone claiming lack of drinking water, lack of medicine for the sick, and lack of food for the hungry, that person has problems too deep to be explained in an interview.

Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.

I don’t get bothered by fans.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people’s civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it’s fiction or non-fiction.

I’ve never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

Sir Alex Ferguson was a genuinely nice man. We met many times and even had dinner together on a few occasions. But woe to the person who threatened or bothered Manchester United in any way. Then Ferguson would not spare his venom. I know, because he often aimed that venom at me.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

Show me what society that ever existed that did not use the tools that they had available. Ask any person from East Germany… you will never hear somebody say, ‘The Stasi never bothered me because I didn’t have anything to hide.’ That’s not a thing that people say.

Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, ‘Should I not be myself,’ but I won’t do that.

I was aware that the things that I did bothered people, but that only spurred me on even more.

I remember thinking I couldn’t be bothered to feel any emotions any more.

When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn’t sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

There used to be times when I used to be bothered about box office, director, producer, the actress… If those ticks were marked, I used to say ‘yes’ to a film. Later on, my focus absolutely changed. Now if a character stays with me for two to three nights, I say ‘yes’ to the film.

It bothered me when Kevin Durant left Oklahoma City.

Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting ‘bothered’ is just part of the deal. It’s not a bother to me at all. That’s part of being an actor and that’s something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

I don’t have anything that I treasure at all. They’re just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn’t be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

I really can’t be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that’s nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of toilet paper.

I’m just a lad who likes playing football. I’m not bothered about anything else.

When you’re younger, you worry about the sack and getting abuse and things, but when you get to my age, you become less bothered about those things. It becomes more like a hobby and less like life or death.

Networks like Adult Swim allow artists to be artists and allow their vision to come through without a lot of tinkering. I worked on ‘Moral Orel’ and ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole,’ and they bothered us very little. They very, very seldom came to us and said ‘Change this,’ or ‘You can’t do that,’ or ‘We’d like to see this.’

If you write a written book, you’re gonna get slowed up by lawyers wanting to see what you say about this person, that person – I couldn’t be bothered with it.

I never knew my father. He’d disappeared from the scene before I was born, and I still have no idea who he is. Perhaps strangely, it’s never bothered me; I certainly don’t believe it’s really affected me.

I would like to one day write a nice big novel and enjoy writing it and people enjoy reading it but I cannae be bothered or I don’t have any ideas that would fill up a big book like that.

When there was a Congress government in Maharashtra, no one bothered about law and order.

Whenever I get a good script, I don’t care whether it’s telly or theatre or big screen – I’m not bothered.

People think I’m crazy, but I’m not bothered what anyone thinks.

I don’t get bothered by the media. There is nothing in the media that makes me lose any sleep at night.

I’m just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren’t going to be alive forever – that bothered me.

As a newspaper reporter, I covered and was around a fair number of crime scenes involving juvenile delinquents, and few things bothered me more than listening to their parents. Crying, ranting, proclaiming how great their children were despite being kicked out of school or previous run-ins with the law.

What bothered me more than if LeBron left or not was that I didn’t think they had great assets if you have to do a rebuild. It was more that than Bron. Bron and I have always had an amazing relationship.

I’ve been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I’m really not comfortable with the notion of present.

People say that I must get bothered when someone stops me for an autograph or a photo. I’ll get bothered when no one asks me. Being asked means people haven’t forgotten the time I played.

The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.