Listening Quotes
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I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.
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Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.
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I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
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I remember listening to Sugar Free and Jay Z and I never really understood some of the stuff they used to say until years later. Then you hear it again like, Damn that's crazy. I just got what he's talking about.
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The art of life is loving and listening to one another.
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I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by reading novels.
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I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )
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Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.
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When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.
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I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.
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I would agree with that. But when I write lyrics, personally I don't care if the person who is listening to it understands what I'm saying or not; and I write them like that specifically. You know, I have my views; I don't feel the need to have people have the same views as me. So if they find the meaning in the songs and it's the same meaning as the one I intended then fine and dandy and if they don't, they don't.
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The ads that podcasts manage to sell tell you a lot about who they think is listening. They include services that promise to make your investment portfolio ethical, deliver exotic, ready meals to your home, or guarantee better sleep thanks to luxury bed linen.
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I grew up listening to so many different things, and having a dad that also sang, music was innately born into me. Going through high school and college, I'd go see anyone who came to town, it didn't matter the genre.
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Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
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I feel like the albums I grew up listening to - for example, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Christina Aguilera - they all spoke about real stuff that was happening in their life and everyone else's life.
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People appreciate it when you take some time to think about who will be listening to your jokes.
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Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can.
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Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.
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If it's worth listening to, it's worth questioning until you understand it.
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
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I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.
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I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
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For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story is a story when people give me the privilege of listening when I'm speaking it out loud.
