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  • Cat Stevens There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it's mine! It's the 'Foreigner Suite,' it is!
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Lillian Hellman They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Bill Delahunt This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Butch Trucks This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bob Dylan This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Butch Trucks To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Eric Hoffer To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ghose Aurobindo To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
    Ghose Aurobindo
    Indian philosopher, yogi, guru, poet, and nationalist (1872 - 1950)
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  • Brene Brown To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Aeschylus To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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  • Confucius To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Benny Green We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Barbara Deming We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Carrie Fisher We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Ali Smith We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
    (2012)
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Adam Sandler Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Campbell Brown When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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