Hearing Quotes - Page 26

• I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

  Jan Karon

  Names, Sound, Mysterious

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• Hearing things like 'Wake Up' by Lora Logic, or the Raincoats' 'In Love' - that was something I wasn't prepared for. I couldn't hear anything that came before it in the music, and I didn't want to. I was absolutely in love with its out-of-nowhereness.

  Greil Marcus

  Hearing Things, Wake Up, Want

  "Greil Marcus: a life in writing". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.

  Jacques Attali

  Men, Twenties, Essentials

  Jacques Attali (1985). “Noise: The Political Economy of Music”, p.3, Manchester University Press

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• Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.

  Patrick Ewing

  New York, Names, Knicks

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• The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.

  Dave Brubeck

  Radio, Firsts, Remember

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• There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

  Kelly Bishop

  Laughing, Way, Joyful

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• You know, growing up, I lived in a neighborhood in Long Island where there was basically one black family. And I remember hearing all the parents and the kids in the neighborhood say racist things about this family.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Growing Up, Kids, Islands

  "New Again: Destiny’s Child". www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

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• Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

  Tammy Baldwin

  People, Listening, Growing

  "Tammy Baldwin launches" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. September 06, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.

  Felicity Huffman

  Views, Issues, Support

  "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

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• The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

  Neil Diamond

  Lying, Philosophy, Sleep

  Song: Lady Magdelene, Album: Serenade, 1974

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• Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.

  D. M. Thomas

  Silence, Heard, Hmmm

  D. M. Thomas (1993). “The White Hotel”, Penguin Group USA

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• In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

  Katie Leclerc

  Loss, Order, Play

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• I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.

  Katie Leclerc

  Loss, Four, Disease

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• I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like I suddenly started feeling different. I always knew that I was. I never felt I missed out.

  Hayden Panettiere

  School, Feelings, Doe

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• My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar

  Son, Emotional, India

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• Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Movie, Hate, Voice

  "Eddie Redmayne On ‘My Week With Marilyn,’ And Which Old Screen Legend He Would Have An Affair With" by Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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