Pay Attention Quotes - Page 31

• I never pay attention, to no numbers, no views, comments ... I just try to keep on going, keep on living my life so I can continue to put out music that's real.

  Kirko Bangz

  Real, Views, Numbers

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

  Ricky Gervais

  Glowing, Attention, Pay

  "Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant ('The Ricky Gervais Show')". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I was not one of the popular kids, I was not great at sports, girls didn't pay attention to me.I was just pretty much an average kid, no stand-out abilities, nothing note-worthy.

  Jeff Dunham

  Girl, Sports, Kids

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• I encourage everyone to know that God has a plan for their life and that God never makes a mistake even though it seems like He is not listening or paying attention sometimes.

  Nick Vujicic

  Mistake, Listening, Attention

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• We're going to sing about things that matter to us. The balancing act is to present these ideas but also make the music exciting and sort of fun enough that even if you're not paying attention to the lyrics, you might still like the songs anyway. That's the idea.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Fun, Ideas

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 07, 2015.

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• It's always the negative things that seep through into your consciousness. Most of the positive things just roll off real fast. I just try not to pay attention to it, because I've never read anything about my band that's accurate.

  Conor Oberst

  Real, Trying, Negative

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• Perpetual optimism is annoying. It is a sign that you are not paying attention.

  Maureen Dowd

  Optimism, Attention, Annoying

  "Liberties; Colin Powell Rules!". www.nytimes.com. September 17, 1995.

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• But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Essence, World

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• Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

  Margaret Halsey

  Exercise, Boys, Thinking

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

  Terry McMillan

  Attention, Pay, About Yourself

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• You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly.

  Nicklas Lidstrom

  Details, Attention, Pay

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• If you've been paying attention to politics for the last, you know, 30 years, it would not have shocked you, but what was amazing was that there it was, you know, in irrefutable colors, you know, there on paper, or there on your computer screen.

  Jill Stein

  Color, Years, Attention

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• We do not want to repeat ourselves [in Doctor Strange] or do what's been done before necessarily, and when you have a track record now you can either do that and keep, this seems to work and let's keep doing this - which some people accuse us of no matter what, because I don't think they pay attention, but really what we do is say, 'Okay, we have a studio that trusts us and let's us do what we want for the most part with the creative.

  Kevin Feige

  Thinking, Doctors, People

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Legislators could easily be out-voted if people voted in midterm elections. The fact that we don't talk about all this stuff [ abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights] very much because Donald Trump and the general election is sucking all the air out of the room - if people aren't paying attention to their state, they're certainly not paying attention to what's happening in other states.

  Lizz Winstead

  Rights, Air, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I took the original stuff that I read as standalone [in The Flash]. I didn't have anything to refer to, so to me it was all new. It's delightfully simple, the show, but it has many moving parts. It certainly makes you pay attention.

  Tom Felton

  Moving, Simple, Attention

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• Not that long ago, the idea of feeding your kid with organic fruit and vegetables or paying attention to sustainability or any of that - that was very fringy. And I guess some people will argue it still is to a degree, but it's kind of mainstream fringy now.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Kids, Long, People

  "Are Disney Princesses Evil?". Interview With Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2011.

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• There's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton. And that's because they're paying attention.

  Mike Pence

  People, Attention, Reason Why

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they are in paying attention to the shlumpy diversity of defensible values that people actually have, and then trying to figure out how these might be negotiated in the life of an agent or community.

  Dale Jamieson

  People, Diversity, Community

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know, this is a good book, how come no one is paying attention to it?" So it's nice to have some recognition.

  Paul Beatty

  Nice, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Obviously we can't do what we do if no one is paying attention.

  Justin Hartley

  Attention, Ifs

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who are being ruined by it, and so this doesn't happen again.

  David Brooks

  Diversity, People, Attention

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.

  Jim Goad

  Father, Evil, Giving

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• If I was to listen and pay attention to everyone that criticized me, I'd stay home under the bed.

  Nancy Grace

  Home, Bed, Attention

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I am just always, always paying attention - waiting for the words, or image, or name that will be the beginning of a story.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Names, Waiting, Attention

  Source: blog.booksamillion.com

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• I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."

  Wendy C. Ortiz

  Fall, Trying, Pay

  Source: therumpus.net

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