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• I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

  Charles Mingus

  Symphony, Listening, Attention

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• I love a man who knows how to walk. I do like a gentleman, a man who opens the door and a man who walks on the proper side of the street with you. There’s something safe about it; he’s protecting you. That’s a really nice quality. You don’t see it as often anymore. I pay attention to those things. I know it sounds silly, but I love that. I’m fortunate to say that I have a good guy. Oh, and he has to have great hands. There’s a lot I find sexy in a man, but strong, manly hands are very important.

  Lana Parrilla

  Sexy, Strong, Nice

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• I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

  Lil Wayne

  Attention, Pay, Paid

  FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from Apr 13, 2012

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• The trap is when you start to pay attention to that stuff and care, because in six months, they're going to be looking at someone else. You know how fickle everyone is. They love it, then they hate it, then they love it. So I'm going to enjoy it because it could be over at any minute.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Hate, Care, Pay

  "'Grey's Anatomy' star wishes she could gain weight. And kiss Angelina". featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. December 7, 2006.

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• I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area. I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.

  Rebecca Romijn

  School, Kids, Swimming

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• If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Order, Grace

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• Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

  Joe Morton

  Jobs, Attention, Actors

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• Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.

  Rodney Mullen

  People, Focus, Trying

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• I try not to go crazy, but yes, I pay attention to what I eat

  Eva Mendes

  Crazy, Trying, Attention

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• It's easy to get next to music theory, especially between your peers and music classes and so forth. You just pay attention. I had a good ear, so I realized that printed music was just about reminding you what to play.

  Quincy Jones

  Class, Play, Peers

  The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org.

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• People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

  Billy Corgan

  Ideas, People, Attention

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• Again, (America is) a stupid country with stupid people who don't pay attention.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Stupid, America

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• Awareness of others is a beautiful thing. Learning how to support and encourage, and stopping long enough to pay attention to someone other than yourself, is a truly beautiful quality. There are a thousand beautiful things we can find about ourselves.

  India de Beaufort

  Beautiful, Long, Support

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• I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks.

  Katrina Kenison

  Children, Blessing, Journey

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• Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Airplane, Airports, Land

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• I never decide if an idea is good or bad until I try it. So much of what gets in the way of things being good is thinking that we know. And the more that we can remove any baggage we're carrying with us, and just be in the moment, use our ears, and pay attention to what's happening, and just listen to the inner voice that directs us, the better.

  Rick Rubin

  Thinking, Ideas, Voice

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

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• I'm gonna dress up as an iPhone so my husband pays attention to me.

  Nicole Richie

  Husband, Iphone, Dresses

  Twitter post from May 26, 2012

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• Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn.

  Michael J. Fox

  Book, Attention, Pay

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• I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

  Shawn Johnson

  Attention, Pay, Gymnast

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• You achieve stature only by being good enough to deserve it, by forcing even the contemptuous and indifferent to pay attention, and to acknowledge that human relations and human emotions are of inexhaustible interest wherever they occur.

  Wallace Stegner

  Attention, Pay, Emotion

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• The problem is that most members of Congress don’t pay attention to what’s going on.

  John McCain

  Attention, Pay, Problem

  "A Crumbling America" by Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2010.

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• The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Stupid, Government

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Art is about paying attention.

  Laurie Anderson

  Art, Attention, Art Is

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• To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God - that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying. The primary task of the schoolteacher is to teach children, in a secular context, the technique of prayer.

  W. H. Auden

  God, Prayer, Children

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• I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, America, People

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.813, Best Books on

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