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• Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Music, Dark, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

  Jay McShann

  Music, Swings, Play

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• I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Music, Singers, Jazz

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• Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
  It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

  William Cobbett

  Patience, Men, Quality

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• Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some reason why it is mainly liberals who tend to say this, but the chief thing to note about the promise is that it is usually an empty one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Leaving, Promise

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• Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Krypton, Rumor

  "US elections: Barack Obama jokes he is Superman". www.telegraph.co.uk. October 17, 2008.

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• At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

  Robert Frost

  Relationship, Money, Issues

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• When I was in my twenties and just so sexually prolific, the first time I went to Machu Picchu, this guy, a spiritual teacher, says to me, "When you make love, you must be making love." I thought that was the greatest advice I had ever heard.

  Woody Harrelson

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Spiritual

  "Woody Harrelson: What I've Learned" by Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Those Christians who are very strict in their observances, think a good deal more of the Sabbath than of man, a great deal more of the Bible than of the truth, and ten times more of their creed than of the will of God. Of course, if they heard anyone utter such words as I have just written, they would say he was and atheist.

  George MacDonald

  Christian, Atheist, Men

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• I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man or by the son of a praying father or a praying mother. I have made the statement before the chambers of commerce of all the largest cities of the country and have asked them to bring forward a case that is an exception to this rule. Thus far, I have not heard of a single one.

  Roger Babson

  Single, Christian, Mother

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• Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!

  Wolfgang Pauli

  Science, Comedian, Wish

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• Social entrepreneurs come from all levels of society and from communities in nearly every country of the world. They all share the same underlying drive and passion to see their ideas through. Many of them have had a huge effect on the world, yet most people have not even heard of them - a trend we hope to change!

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Country, Passion, Countries Of The World

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• I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anniversary, Love Is, Conditions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4327, Delphi Classics

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• When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, Being Strong, Decision

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• When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.

  Pat Boone

  Artist, Black, Trying

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• All night have the roses heard
  The flute, violin, bassoon;
  All night has the casement jessamine stirr'd
  To the dancers dancing in tune;
  Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
  And a hush with the setting moon.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Dance, Moon, Night

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.890, Delphi Classics

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• It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Song, Voice, Singing

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.45, SCM Press

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• America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Country, America, Eight

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• In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Prayer, 4th Of July, Needs

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• Our job if I can see straight and hear clearly and understand ~ is to make advertising and run advertising that is seen and read and heard ~ and remembered ~ for its reasonable and compelling truth.

  Fairfax M. Cone

  Running, Jobs, Business

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• In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Heart, Men

  Mahmud Shabistari (2002). “The Secret Rose Garden”, p.90, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible, so they have in practice a sufficient psychological base. I will find you a man dealing with psychological problems on the basis of the teaching of the Word of God, even if he never heard the word psychology, or does not know what it means.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Teaching, Mean

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• But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

  Judith Viorst

  Girl, Age, Trying

  Judith Viorst (1970). “It's hard to be hip over thirty and other tragedies of married life”

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• God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Self Esteem, Helping

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Crowds, Strikeouts

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