Listening Quotes - Page 38

• Listening to music that I hate calms me down.

  Joey Comeau

  Hate, Calm, I Hate

  "It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry". Book by Joey Comeau, "Where Are You Off To Now?" story, 2007.

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• So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.

  George Gamow

  Waiting, Sitting, Exciting

  "Interview with George Gamow", by Charles Weiner at Professor Gamow's home in Boulder, Colorado, April 25, 1968.

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• Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.

  Heather King

  Listening Ear, Names, People

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• Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds... That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.

  DJ Quik

  School, Culture, Enjoy

  Interview with David Drake, pitchfork.com. October 15, 2004.

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• I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me

  Fabio Capello

  Intelligent, Player, Media

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• I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met with vast gratitude, that you were hit by something as you stood in the way of it, that anybody is listening.

  Barry Hannah

  Gratitude, Believe, Writing

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• Yesterday, the Supreme Court spent over an hour listening to arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Yeah, listening to arguments about Obamacare for an hour, or as most people call that, 'Thanksgiving Dinner.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Obamacare, Yesterday, People

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• The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Technology, Doe, Savages

  "Credo". Essay by Arthur C. Clarke (1991), later published in Arthur C. Clarke "Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds!: Collected Essays, 1934-1998" (p. 360), 1990.

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• When I got to Princeton I made a point of attending the Philosophy Club and listening to the lectures, but I didn't get involved in any discussions in those clubs. I guess after the first year, I dropped that.

  Stephen Cole Kleene

  Philosophy, Years, Clubs

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• While I had many friends as a child I aslo kept a great deal to myself. I noticed that adults were drawn to me. They would talk to me for hours at my parents' parties. Strange to find yourself at seven, dressed in pagamas with feet, listening to adults tell you their deepest secrets.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Party, Feet

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• I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.

  James D. Watson

  Lonely, Fun, Science

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• We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

  Gilberto Hernandez

  Artist, Rocks, People

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• At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

  Henry Flynt

  Artist, Thinking, Class

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• We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.

  Bernadette Peters

  Wagner

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly...what he is saying inwardly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Masters, Zen Master

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• There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Kids, Germany

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• I'm not attached to a certain scene. There was certain music - and techno was a part of it - that really formulated something for me, that really was a direct connection to what I experienced in my life. Going to parties and listening to techno at home helped form my musical identity. And that changed throughout my life.

  Pantha du Prince

  Party, Home, Musical

  "Pantha du Prince’s Bell Hooks". Interview with Nathan Reese, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true.

  Michael Wilbon

  Years

  "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". www.washingtonpost.com. December 6, 2010.

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• I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."

  Kevin Costner

  Mistake, Careers, Gone

  "Kevin Costner and Amber Heard Talk 3 DAYS TO KILL, Work/Life Balance, Playing a Seductive Spy Hunter, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Most of actor's work is done at home, in your hotel room, in the wee hours of the morning thinking and reading and feeling, walking around and listening to music. It really just because an internal exercise, whatever skills. It's great if you have to learn something new for a gig and designing a character physically is always fun but it does become an internal exercise in separating the wheat from the chaff.

  Colin Farrell

  Morning, Fun, Reading

  "Colin Farrell Talks Saving Mr. Banks, How Passionate He Was About Signing on, What He Collects, Winter’s Tale, Miss Julie, Solace, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 17, 2013.

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• We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.

  Richard Branson

  Successful, Views, Groups

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• It's really fun doing scenes with people when there's no written dialogue because you're really listening to each other, you're playing off each other, because that's all you have as a guide.

  Sebastian Silva

  Fun, People, Scene

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio.

  Ann Coulter

  Book, Reading, Mean

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division.

  Benjamin Carson

  Religious, War, Fire

  "Ben Carson calls for unity as Charleston community recovers from tragedy". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2015.

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• (I)t is highly questionable whether when 'Europe speaks with one voice', as we are so often told it is doing, anyone is really listening. Europe's reputation as a serious player in international affairs is unenviable. It is a feeble giant who desperate attempts to be taken seriously are largely risible. It has a weak currency and a sluggish inflexible economy, still much reliant on hidden protectionism. It has a shrinking, ageing, population and, with the exception of Britain, rather unimpressive armed forces and, not excepting Britain, muddled diplomacy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Taken, Player, Europe

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