"I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child."

Attention, Parents

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"I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child."

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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."

Georg Brandes, Danish Critic

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"The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention."

Anthony J. D'Angelo, American Author

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"Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives."

Cole Younger, American Criminal

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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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