Wally Hickel (Walter Joseph Hickel) Quotes
Embracing a philosophy which appears to lack appropriate concern for a great mass of Americans – our young people... regardless of how I, or any American, might feel individually, we have an obligation as leaders to communicate with our youth and listen to their ideas and problems.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.
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I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.
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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth.
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I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
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Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
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I don't really know much about cars.
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The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific progress was so gigantic that it seems rash to predict that any of its successors can be more important in the life of any nation.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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Embracing a philosophy which appears to lack appropriate concern for a great mass of Americans – our young people... regardless of how I, or any American, might feel individually, we have an obligation as leaders to communicate with our youth and listen to their ideas and problems.
