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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.


Octavia Butler
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank
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My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.
Hugh Grant
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.


Karl Kraus
But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'd been there seven years. The combination of an entrepreneurial desire to see how far I could push my success and a short attention span. But now I've done other things. And I'm sort of ready to sit somewhere and sit in the same place for a while.
Andy Richter
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I have a long attention span, and I am also a good scientist, and there are a lot of problems that remain in the organic agricultural movement that the government does not invest in solving.
Sandra Lerner
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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.


Mary Astell
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
Barbara Kruger
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The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.
Chuck Norris
My wife is wonderful. She's one of the people who has changed my life around... or has allowed ME to change my life around.
Rob Walton
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In the early '90s, there was an attention to diversity. In this country, diversity was a good thing. People would use words like 'multicultural' and like it. Now, politically, those words are out. But I still feel theaters have to be diverse in order to survive.
Kenny Leon
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Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
Keith Henson
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In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.


William Billings
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Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.
Fred Funk
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Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.
Cynthia Kenyon
All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.
Lucas Till
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I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.
Ana Ortiz
'Diversity' is like, 'Ugh, I have to do diversity.' I recognize and celebrate what it is, but that word, to me, is a disconnect.
Ava DuVernay
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The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.
Linda Vester