"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."

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"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves."

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"When you are "off somewhere else" people notice. Have you found yourself in conversations in which you're so concerned about what you are going to say next, that you don't even hear what the other person is saying? Guilty as charged, right?"

Susan C. Young, American Author

Attention, Truth, Wisdom, Regret, Power

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Attention, Dress, Right

"Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention."

Jeff Gannon, American Journalist

Attention, Help

"While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare."

Boris Yeltsin, Russian Statesman

Attention, Information, Potential

"I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting."

Donald Judd, American Artist

Attention, Building

"Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

Attention, Being, Feeling, Giving

"Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive."

Jessica Savitch, American Journalist

Attention, Being

"The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

Attention, Culture, Mission, Press

"I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95."

Dennis Rodman, American Athlete

Attention, Hair

"If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it."

Lawrence Hargrave, Australian Scientist

Attention, Right, Will

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"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste."

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"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man."

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"But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you."

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"I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you."

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"Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder."

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"What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?"

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"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying."

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"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!"

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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."

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"If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."

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