Attention Seeking Quotes

• I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

  David Walliams

  Different, Attention, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.

  Laurie Penny

  Roles, Attention, Facts

  Laurie Penny (2013). “Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet”, p.21, A&C Black

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• All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

  Jimmy Carr

  Comedian, Different, Audacity

  "The Razz: Jimmy's Brent on Being Funny". The Daily Record, February 28, 2004.

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• It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or too attention-seeking. In my paintings, I wish to create a spiritual remedy, similar to a comfortable armchair which provides rest from physical expectation for the spiritually working, the businessman as well as the artist.

  Henri Matisse

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for specific recognition into a generalized demand for attention and the anger at specific injustice into a generalized feeling of grievance and resentment. The result is a culture of entitlement, attention-seeking and complaint.

  Michael Foley

  Rights, Feelings, Culture

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not particularly attention-seeking.

  Annie Lennox

  Attention, Seeking

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• Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

  Anthony Daniels

  Compassion, Attention, May

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• I've used the laws of the country to my advantage.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Law, Used

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• '-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what you expect to see, Severus.' said Dumbledore.

  J. K. Rowling

  Father, Life Lesson, Attention

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