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• Well, English is no problem for me because I am actually English. My whole family are English; I was brought up listening to various forms of the English accent. Obviously there are more specific ones that get a little bit tricky. Same with American stuff. But because in Australia we're so inundated with American culture, television, this that and the other, everyone in Australia can do an American accent. It's just second nature.

  Guy Pearce

  Australia, Television, Littles

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• In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Prayer, Talking, Accomplished

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• Don't ever call me a bottler on the radio with thousands of people listening

  Jamie Carragher

  People, Radio, Call Me

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• The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

  Branford Marsalis

  Successful, People, Musician

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• It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

  Charles E. Burchfield

  Color, Tree, Sound

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• Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

  Steve Jobs

  Journey, Acting, Action

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• Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Prayer, Angel, Feelings

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• Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening to the voice within, not to the noisy babel without. Most of us possess discriminating reasoning powers. Can we use them or must we be fed by others like babes?

  Luther Burbank

  Fear, Book, Voice

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• All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.

  Luther Burbank

  Mother, Nature, Light

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• The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably.

  Hayley Atwell

  Art, Communication, Talking

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• I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

  John James Audubon

  Song, Bird, Peculiar

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

  John Hancock

  Children, Passion, Eye

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• How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and thoroughly renouncing such vanities, flying to the Saviour's Cross, and clasping His Crown of thorns to your heart, so that these little foxes may not spoil your vines. Beware of entering into any manner of treaty with the Enemy; do not delude yourself by listening to him while intending to reject him.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Heart, Vanity, Attachment

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.249, Catholic Way Publishing

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• You stop growing when you stop listening.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Growing

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• In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Offering, Doors

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• Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

  Susan Jacoby

  Art, Real, Women

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• In New York, you are forced into having very public lives and observing all types of people, what they sound like, what they're reading, what they smell like, what they are listening to, how they talk to their friends.

  Nick Kroll

  New York, Reading, Smell

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's irrelevant to me if other people know who I am. I'm just, I'm really happy. It calms me down, too. If you're on top of an oilrig, fighting with politicians, or whatever - you need a bit of wisdom to realize that you're not always right, or that you're not always being reasonable, or you're not always listening.

  Nick Offerman

  Fighting, Who I Am, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window and looking outside - small things like that can be absolutely huge.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Beautiful, Sitting, Able

  "Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2015.

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• As much as I'd like to be listening to other things, I can't do that until I get all of this sort of put to bed.

  Todd Rundgren

  Listening To Others, Bed, I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think commercial success is really important. It means there are more people listening, and you're affecting the zeitgeist more. If only a hundred people know you exist, it's harder to get your message across.

  Courtney Love

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I don't think a lot of people listen to their old stuff, do they? I spent a long time making it, so I don't really want to spend much time listening to it again.

  Kate Bush

  Thinking, Long, People

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Book, Imagination, Audio

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• I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

  Rick Owens

  Vogue, Cried

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• I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey.

  William Moseley

  Book, Fall, Lions

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