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"In a new videotape message, Texas Gov. Rick Perry urges his supporters to follow him on 'Tweeter.' After hearing about it, John McCain laughed and said, “What an idiot! It's 'The Tweeter.''"
"Playboy magazine announced that they are going to support the troops by sending them emails from Playboy playmates. After hearing this the U.S. troops said 'Just our luck, we get emails from playmates, but we're embedded with Geraldo.'"
"Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck."
"I love playing out. I love dance music, I love minimal electro. Especially hearing that in clubs, it's a nod to that really."
"Make passionate my sense of hearing."
"Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue."
"Exactly what part of that is supposed to make me feel better?" Though, honestly, hearing that she was jealous of me did make me feel a teeny, tiny bit better."
"Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?"
"My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying."
"Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are very skeptical of [Rex Tillerson]. At the same time the Democrats will portray him as a climate criminal because he heads a big oil company. So, he'll be in for really tough confirmation hearings."
"Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others."
"Earnie hit me harder than any other fighter, including Mike Tyson. He hit me and I was face down on the canvas hearing saxophonist Jimmy Tillis."
"If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone."
"Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw."
"For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'"
"I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me."
"Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy."
"It does feel like the middle ground has fallen out. I'm only saying that from personal experience, saying, "I'd like to make that movie" and hearing, "Oh, they're not making those types of movies anymore.""
"You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing."
"In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind."
