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• President Obama said the small drone that flew over the White House fence yesterday could be bought at any RadioShack. After hearing this, the RadioShack CEO said, 'I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.'

  Conan O'Brien

  White, Yesterday, People

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• As we watched Judge Clarence
  Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation
  hearings, all of the commentators
  said the same thing: 'One of these
  people in the room is lying.' Do you
  believe that? You've got two lawyers
  and 14 senators in the room, and only
  one of them is lying?

  Jay Leno

  Lying, Believe, Two

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• Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed.

  Declan Lynch

  Soccer, Football, Witty

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• Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Agency, Firsts, Economy

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• This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Mother, Wife, Faithful

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• I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.

  Chris Thile

  Thinking, Voice, People

  "Conversation: Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo Sessions". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 25, 2012.

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• The one thing I learned is not to say anything about my own paintings. Keep my mouth shut. You'll never stop hearing what you said. It will come back to you again and again, people will always tell you about it. Even if you were the source of what's wrong with it.

  Frank Stella

  People, Say Anything, Mouths

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.

  Bella Bathurst

  Loss, White, Appreciate

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• Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Communication, Successful, Yawning

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• [The Internet] ... is an amazing communications tool that's bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it's just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you've never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you're hearing.

  Dennis Miller

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  Dennis Miller (1999). “Ranting Again”, Main Street Books

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• An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.

  Nick Hornby

  Player, Rivals, Clubs

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• If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Song, Heart, Thinking

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• What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.

  Wyclef Jean

  Crazy, Feet, People

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• I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

  Francois Rabelais

  Sleep, Comfort, Praying

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• It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Trust, Mother, Children

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• My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.

  Rita Rudner

  Sports, Football, Father

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Imagination, Meditation

  Dalai Lama, Alexander Berzin (1997). “The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra”, p.56, Shambhala

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• Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Golf, Opportunity

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• [On hearing that President Coolidge was dead:] How can you tell?

  Dorothy Parker

  President

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• Without even knowing it, we are assaulted by a high note of urgency all the time. We end up pacing ourselves to the city rhythm whether or not it's our own. In time we even grow hard of hearing to the rest of the world. Like a violinist stuck next to the timpani, we may lose the ability to hear our own instrument.

  Ellen Goodman

  Stress, Cities, Knowing

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Religious, Powerful, Mean

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• The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

  Plutarch

  Heart, Consideration, Instance

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• An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

  Marion Woodman

  Addiction, Soul, Trying

  Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”

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• Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth
  Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,--
  Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,--
  Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.

  Bayard Taylor

  Blue, Color, Tree

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.33

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• I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.

  Richard Sherman

  Crush, Tired, Intelligent

  "Richard Sherman Still Talking, Taunting This Morning" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. January 20, 2014.

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