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"For the future, be true to yourself. If you're gonna be influenced by someone be influenced by them. Don't cop them so much that you're a clone. No one wants to deal with a clone. There's not that much more substance in being a clone, but definitely be influenced by people...take what you can from that and sculpt it into your own situation. In doing so, you'll be happy and I think your people will be happy listening to what you do."

People Thinking Listening
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Anne Sexton Poet, Author
Listening

"Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises."

Animal Time Listening
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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Honor the physical temple that houses you by eating healthfully, exercising, listening to your body's needs and treating it with dignity and love."

House Exercise Listening
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Tommy Lee Musician, Drummer
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"It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me."

Writing Listening Playing Music
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Zhuangzi Philosopher
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"When I talk about having good hearing, I don't mean just listening, but listening to yourself. When I talk about good eyesight, I don't mean just looking, but looking at yourself."

Mean Listening Hearing
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James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
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"People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing music through terrible speakers, little computer speakers, there's a lot to get back to in terms of hi-fi and people listening to better quality, technically better quality music."

People Quality Listening
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
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"Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?"

Hands Silence Listening
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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer
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"While they'd be setting up shots, suddenly, there were 17 make-up chicks, just listening to Marlon telling these amazing stories that were probably lies. He was a fascinating individual. I learned a lot from him."

Lying Stories Listening
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Joyce Brothers Psychologist
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"Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand."

Talking Listening Thought Provoking
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Kofi Siriboe Actor
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"As much as he's been through, he's so alive and open to change. That's what I wanted to channel and I feel that's the root of who he is. So I was still and listening to God. All of that came together to really birth this human being known as Ralph Angel."

Angel Roots Listening
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Barack Obama Politician
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"Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them."

Issues Religion Listening
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Barack Obama Politician
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"During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign."

Past Listening Tvs
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Listening

"What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real."

Real Lines Listening
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Listening

"Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought."

Giving Sound Listening
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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Listening

"Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on cosmic scale. No gain in consciousness is ever lost, so it would simply express itself through some other form. But the very fact that I am speaking here and you are listening or reading this is a clear sign that the new consciousness is gaining a foothold on the planet."

Spiritual Reading Listening
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Paul Allen Businessman, Philanthropist
Listening

"That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago."

Would Be Listening Life Changing
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