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• Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.

  Toni Braxton

  Teacher, Dad, College

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

  Ulrich Beck

  Views, Voice, World

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• I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

  China Chow

  Voice, Machines, My Own

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• In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.

  Eliza Coupe

  School, College, Acting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

  Dale Archer

  Book, Reading, Stories

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• Joe McCarthy and his Senate hearings were like witch-hunts.

  Desi Arnaz

  Witch, Joe Mccarthy, Hunts

  Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

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• What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument.

  Susan Collins

  Jobs, Impact, Argument

  "Sen. Susan Collins: Tax The Rich To Fund Payroll Tax Cut For Workers" By Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

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• I don't think anything's more rewarding than hearing that you've helped someone gain a love of reading.

  James Dashner

  Reading, Thinking, Gains

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• I think the American electorate should work a little harder at getting informed. That includes hearing, truly listening, to what the other side is saying. Whether you're left or right.

  Jeff Daniels

  Thinking, Listening, Littles

  "CLICK Blog" by Tim Man, www.politico.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Two, Sound, Months

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• Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Birth, Lost, Difficulty

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• I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Father, Childhood, Hard

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• I suppose I don't hear things, but I listen, if you know what I mean. And there is a big difference between hearing and listening. So it's like a conversation, you know. When you speak to someone, it's one on one, and that's exactly how I play.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Mean, Play, Differences

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• I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

  Jacques Audiard

  Boys, People, Parent

  "All that glisters..." by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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• My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Dad, Military

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• If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

  Rupert Everett

  Religious, Gay, Tolerance

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• Nature is about smelling, hearing, tasting, seeing.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Tasting, Seeing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.52, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

  Jane Austen

  Christian, Names, Sight

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 57 (Mr Collins)

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• All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

  Harold Wilson

  Business, Littles, Financial

  'Hansard' 12 November 1956, col. 578

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• If you're a short-seller, that's a cacophony of negative reinforcement. You're basically told that you're wrong in every way imaginable every day. It takes a certain type of individual to drown that noise and negative reinforcement out and to remind oneself that their work is accurate and what they're hearing is not.

  James Chanos

  Cacophony, Noise, Way

  "Interview with Jim Chanos". Graham & Doddsville, a Columbia Business School investment newsletter,

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• My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple aspirations. And I remember she had multiple aspirations, always hearing about her dreams and things she did in the past and things she wanted to do.

  Puff Daddy

  Mother, Dream, Jobs

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• People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Thinking, Mp3, People

  "Dithering: Jonny Greenwood". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2009.

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• I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.

  Josh Henderson

  Cutting, Men, Two

  "Ex-'Desperate Housewives' Star Josh Henderson Uses the Internet to Try to Save His Character" by Andrea Canning, abcnews.go.com. May 2, 2007.

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• I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

  Katherine Helmond

  Children, Fascination, Grew Up

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• Like all soul singers, I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band, The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

  Daryl Hall

  Boys, Careers, Ideas

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