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• It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you look as good as you can, people will be able to pay attention to what your actually saying.

  Tina Fey

  Vanity, People, Trying

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• The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul capable of ecstasy and transport must pay its price in suffering; he who walks upon the heights must sometimes grovel in the dust.

  Myrtle Reed

  Dust, Imagination, Soul

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• Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.

  Mary Jane Ward

  Writing, Compliment, Said

  Mary Jane Ward (1983). “The snake pit”

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• I never knew how high a price one pays for being taken care of.

  Susan Jeffers

  Taken, Care

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• I cannot conceive of a greater wounding of the heart of Christ than to pay reverence to anything in the shape of a cross, or to bow before a crucifix!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Shapes, Bows

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 44: Sermons 2549-2602”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention.

  Jac Holzman

  Mean, Technology, Attention

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• In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power.

  Robert Haugen

  Real, World, Finance

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 13, Counterattack - The Second Wave, p. 129, 1999.

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• Can we really expect adequate funding for programs to clean up our environment and care for people's basic needs as long as the socially essential work of caretaking and cleaning is relegated to women for little or no pay?

  Riane Eisler

  Long, People, Care

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• If you see a thing that looks like a cross between a flying lobster and the figure of Abraxas on a Gnostic gem, do not pay it the least attention, never mind where it is; just keep quiet and hope it will go away - for that's your best chance; you have none in a stand-up fight with a good thorough-going African insect.

  Mary Kingsley

  Fighting, Flying, Mind

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.9, Routledge

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• Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.

  Hadewijch

  Men, People, Humanity

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.61, Paulist Press

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• I want to be a witness to my own time because I've had a sneaking suspicion lately that I'm gonna live a lot longer than most of the people I meet. If I'm gonna be the only one still around to say what happened, I'd better pay close attention now.

  Sarah Schulman

  People, Attention, Want

  Sarah Schulman (2010). “Rat Bohemia (Large Print 16pt)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. "I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry." And you do that so that people in the room might go, "What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities."

  Eddie Izzard

  Strong, Sex, Sorry

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 13, 1999.

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• Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Agreement, Differences

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• I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Teacher, Teaching, Writing

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.

  Eric Church

  Song, Play, Tanks

  "Who the hell is Eric Church?". Interview with Bill DeYoung, www.connectsavannah.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They're filling some kind of hole.

  Jack Black

  Class, People, Trying

  "Jack Black's dramatic turn". Interview with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.

  Scott Baio

  Jobs, Children, Wife

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

  Pete Seeger

  Kings, Queens, Europe

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Order, Discipline

  Source: productivemag.com

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• I think that in a country as successful as ours, we still have a long way to go in terms of parity for women, whether it’s equal pay in the workforce or a whole host of other issues.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Successful, Thinking

  "An Interview With Valerie Jarrett: Senior Advisor to President Obama Talks Gender Parity". Interview with Rahim Kanani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2011.

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• I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mistake, Book, Views

  "Interview with Margaret Atwood". Interview with Raymond H. Thompson, d.lib.rochester.edu. March 25, 1991.

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• I don't look at polls, I pay no attention to them. I pay attention to the public, and the sense of where the public is on certain things, but you have to lead.

  John Kasich

  Looks, Attention, Polls

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• I definitely believe people should pay for copyrighted works. And the laws are sufficient: They already require you to pay for copyright work. There's no confusion. The problem is...it's a heck of a lot easier to steal MP3s than to buy them.

  Jeff Bezos

  Believe, Law, Mp3

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• I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

  Chris Kluwe

  Ideas, People, Empathy

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• We hail the return of the day of thy birth,
  Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans
  Where men from the farthest dominions of earth
  Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions;
  Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right,
  Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight;
  Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be
  An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.

  Abraham Coles

  Freedom, Father, Ocean

  Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

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