“ Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
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“ The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ”
- Elizabeth Hardwick- Copy
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“ The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its serious mismanagement of the federal budget. ”
- Mark Dayton- Copy
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“ I guess I'm a good story teller. What makes me a prolific writer is two factors at work. Celibacy; I don't have a family to distract me. And I'm glib. I reached facility with words. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ People are under the illusion that it's easy… technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell me students to simplify their equipment. ”
- Brett Weston- Copy
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“ Improv helped to distract me and put my focus somewhere else so that I could stop acting. I guess that's what method acting is supposed to accomplish anyway. It distracts you so that your body and emotions can work freely. Improv is just a version of method acting that works for me. ”
- Tina Fey- Copy
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“ There's a powerful transformative effect when you surround yourself with like-minded people. Peer pressure is a great thing when it helps you accomplish your goals instead of distracting you from them. ”
- Po Bronson- Copy
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