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Susan Sontag

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I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Most people think they are basically good human beings which means most people are not paying that m...
CARL WHITE Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Fami...
CAITLIN MORAN She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT It's something I never looked at myself as. If people think that, then great. But I really do feel l...
BILLY CURRINGTON Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan ...
CAITLIN MORAN I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN Actually, I'm not sure we're paying attention to that. I'm just paying attention to doing whatever i...
ERIK COLE Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society ma...
NAOMI WOLF Slow people are just paying close attention.
NANCY FARMER The only people who are actually paying the taxes are new home buyers. A lot of the wealthy people a...
BILL AARON They're paying attention to their problems. They are aware that when it comes to store-level executi...
RICHARD HASTINGS When you are consciously ignoring someone, you are paying special attention to them.
DR HITESH C SHETH Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE There's no certainty to the next couple of years, ... . . . But people are paying attention now. An...
ANDREW MCMAHON There's no certainty to the next couple of years, ... . . . But people are paying attention now. And...
ANDREW MCMAHON I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
JESS C. SCOTT I wasn't paying any attention to them. I just kept my head down.
LONNIE BILLITER JR They showed all the signs of not paying attention to what I used to tell them, however, when they gr...
NSANYA NDANSHAU I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me...
EDMUND WHITE Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody ha...
D. J. HICKS It looks like people have been paying attention — rates are stabilizing, occupancies are increasing...
JAN FREITAG Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.
JANE AUSTEN You're not asking for input. You are asking your admirer's to prove they are paying attention.
CHRIS CLEAVE Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether pe...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move...
NATHALIE SARRAUTE It's The Things A Person Does When They Aren't Paying Attention To What Others May Think About Them ...
DONALD LYNN FROST Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. ...
TERRY PRATCHETT The incidence of sleep disorder has been rising, but people are not paying enough attention to it.
LIU YANJIAO I think he did expand the number of people who were paying attention, and to pay attention in a diff...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather...
DOUG COOPER I don't think it's occurred to people. Especially people who commute from the suburbs, they may not ...
JUDY PARDONNET I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Gold is a hot commodity now, so more people, especially large hedge funds, are paying attention.
BILLY FLAHIVE The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING thing...
JOHN GREEN The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes
are the people NOTICING...
JOHN GREEN It is too soon to say what we are going to do ... The debates will be held when people are paying at...
ARI FLEISCHER Everybody asks the same questions, and to tell the truth, nobody remembers. We were kids. People ask...
NORMA NORWOOD I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.
NOAM CHOMSKY When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor...
DEYTH BANGER It is something that we are paying attention to very closely.
AMY CREWS CUTTS The only time elected officials are really dangerous is when they don't think we the citizens are pa...
TIM EYMAN I just told James they paid him the ultimate compliment by paying so much attention to him.
TERRY HOEPPNER I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability ...
J. PAUL GETTY They were nice boos, ... They had to do that because they had nothing else to do. I am not paying at...
RON ARTEST There's a new generation of people really paying attention to hybrids, and a lot of new adopters bec...
LONNIE MILLER There's a new generation of people really paying attention to hybrid, and a lot of new adopters beca...
LONNIE MILLER Alessandra approached the geniuses of the past to give them life with her attention, which was the f...
CARLOS FUENTES To be quite honest, I haven't really been paying attention.
STEVE MITCHELL Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
JON KABAT-ZINN Pain is God's way of saying, 'are you paying attention?'
JAMES DOWLER GOW I think part of the message that is being sent to members of Congress and both political parties is ...
AVRIL SMITH After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about ...
GEORGE CLOONEY The final week is when people are really paying attention, and you want to make sure your message is...
JAMES VAUGHN I just heard about it, ... I wasn't really paying attention. That's cold. Bet they won't do that aga...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The administration is not paying attention to the laws of biodiversity. It's paying far more attenti...
GLEN SPAIN Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying atte...
TOBE HANSON You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders...
AERIN LAUDER Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have treme...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN If I keep paying attention, I'm going to be in debt!
ALBERT EINSTEIN Of course the Liberal Democrats are going to say things to try and get attention - but I don't t...
GEORGE OSBORNE When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.
USAIN BOLT Not many people pay the AMT now and although a lot of them are going to be paying it in the future, ...
CHRIS EDWARDS Not many people pay the AMT now and although a lot of them are going to be paying it in the future, ...
CHRIS EDWARDS Rightly or wrongly, as a woman in politics, you're being judged for what you're wearing, and...
BETSY HODGES People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attent...
MAHERSHALA ALI The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
TOM PETERS The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity
TOM PETERS Nobody is paying attention to any fundamental news. The funds are still piling in.
ANGUS MACMILLAN Even paranoids have real enemies.
DELMORE SCHWARTZ They feel they're paying enough today.
CARL GEPPERT The Indonesian military is still paying these people, still encouraging them, ... These are real thu...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE I like to watch people. For example, people at the airport... What is interesting about them is that...
KAREN BLACK Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or...
ANNIE PARISSE Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
MARK STRAND The marchers were trying to make a statement, but some people wouldn't let their minds get bogged do...
BERNICE SIMS Just because someone looks safe, doesn't always mean they are. Always be aware of your surroundings,...
BARRY TATE I don't really want to be compared to Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, but I really feel honored and re...
TONY JAA She really opened our family's eyes to the situation. It's something people here aren't paying enoug...
CINDY CORRIE Life has the habit of throwing curve balls to determine if you are paying attention.
STEVEN REDHEAD The money Ms. Rice raised allowed the campaign to air more ads than our opponent in the closing days...
ERIC PHILLIPS A lot of people are paying attention now because people are wondering, as we overmedicate our societ...
JASON MILLS The dot stands for 'detail' - always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take ...
ANDERSON PAAK They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods...
SALLUST When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
BRENE BROWN I do think the American people are paying attention to this, and it's going to be a lot harder for t...
JEFF SESSIONS We want to be sure people in South Carolina are paying attention to the storm. We wouldn't want anyo...
JOE FARMER But there are more asteroids out there, so we should be paying attention.
CLARK CHAPMAN Every time you feel like mocking a person you disagree with politically by implying that they are me...
ARIEL HOWLAND People, up to now, haven't been paying attention to water. It hasn't been a big issue for a while.
KATHLEEN PATTERSON I'm actually very sensitive to energies, and when people are not aligned, I can feel that.
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI To be whole simply requires paying attention to oneself.
GARY HOPKINS A lot of them are gone now. People are paying tribute to what took place out there.
ROBERT SHORT I don't want girls to feel underprivileged. I want them to feel like people are looking out for them...
ASHLEY WHEELER I consider those kind of like misses. I wasn't really paying attention.
CRYSTAL LANGHORNE

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SUSAN SONTAG [Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A ...
SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ...
SUSAN SONTAG The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste...
SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou...
SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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