"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."

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"You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person."

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"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

Patrick Henry, American Revolutionary

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"What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful."

Sandra Day O'Connor, American Judge

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"The constant attention is what is so difficult."

Natalie Wood, American Actress

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"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention."

Christopher Morley, American Author

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"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

Richard Whately, English Writer

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"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead."

Elfriede Jelinek, American Playwright

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"If you call attention to yourself at the expense of the song, that's the cardinal sin."

Benmont Tench, American Musician

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"Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course."

Theodore C. Sorensen, American Lawyer

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"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."

Georg Brandes, Danish Critic

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