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"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."
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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."
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"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."
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"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."
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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."
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"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."
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"The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention."
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"Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives."
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"I think the killers get far too much attention."
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"I think the aim - and certainly the aim of what I've tried to do since leaving - is not political and certainly not a witch hunt at individuals. It's to try to direct our attention at what I believe is a fundamental fault analysis that we must now examine."
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"Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing."
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"My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits."
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"Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic."
Chess
"My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English."
Mother
"Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it."
Being
"After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun."
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"The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture."
American
"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."
Mother
"Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read."
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"The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you."
Energy
"It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later."
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