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		Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally embedded in the way we experience the world that it takes special attention and focus to draw them out and develop an account of their nature.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				L.A. Paul
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm continuously playing this game of what's real and what's not real, and having to balance and judge and realize that there are things that carry real weight in the world and actually have power in them. And there are things that are just pointless, and you don't have to pay attention to those things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Amandla Stenberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The dot stands for 'detail' - always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself. I spent a lot of time working on my craft, developing my style, and after I came out of my little incubation, I promised that I would pay attention to detail.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anderson Paak
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				bell hooks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was not till the earlier part of the sixteenth century that geological phenomena began to attract the attention of the Christian nations. At that period a very animated controversy sprung up in Italy, concerning the true nature and origin of marine shells, and other organized fossils, found abundantly in the strata of the peninsula.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charles Lyell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that's so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Caroline Polachek
			
			
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		People only have so much attention.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Demetri Martin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		What we want is scientists who don't become part of the policy discussion: All they do is produce science. If someone becomes an advocate, then I won't pay as much attention to their science.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George P. Shultz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dane Cook
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I try to read, but my attention span is so bad, and ever since Netflix was invented, that's all I do in my spare time, which is really bad, but it's like a chore to read for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eliot Sumner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We're living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they're having 25 conversations.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alia Shawkat
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Drosophila,” I said, remembering the word. “What?” Lily asked. “Why do girls always fall for guys with the at ention span of drosophila?” “What?” “Fruit flies. Guys with the attention span of fruit flies.” “Because they’re hot?” “This,” I told her, “is not the time for being truthful.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachel Cohn
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I'm concerned about the future of football, because we have paid a lot of attention to concussions. We are more aware of concussions. But it's really the repetitive minor injuries, the ones that are asymptomatic that occur on almost every play of the game, the sub-concussive hits: that's the big problem for football.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ann McKee
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The only thing I'll say in defense of basically the entire conservative media is that, except for a few talk radio hosts, my twitter feed, I guess Brietbart, and Daily Caller is everyone seems to dislike Richard Spencer. He is you know our equivalent of Black Lives Matter. Apparently you know a gay showboater who just wants lots of media attention.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ann Coulter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'We consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark Twain
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have to be honest, I don't pay as much attention to women's fashion, but being a sneaker head, I do like it when a girl can rock a nice pair of sneakers. Not every girl can do it. Every girl looks good in heels - that's a given - but not every girl can look good in fresh kicks.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bryan Greenberg