"I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening."
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"I don't know what type of music my son will want. By the time he starts listening to music, really, at like 15, 16, I'll probably have 10 albums out by that time."
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"My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening."
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"History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible."
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"Mutual respect and mutual listening are the foundations of harmony within the family."
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"The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less."
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"Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter."
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"When I look at comedy, it's all self-expression. I apply that same method to my music. I came up listening to N.W.A and Snoop. Like them, it's in me to express how I feel. You might like it or you might not, but I take that stand."
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"If you wanna leave be my guest you can step Feelin' irreplaceable listening to Beyonce Well, OK, I'll put you out on your bday"
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"It's amazing what we lose in life by listening to fear, instead of listening to God."
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"Listen to the extremists - changes come from them."
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"Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them."
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"We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity."
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"Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."
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"The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles."
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"The first rule of my speaking is: listen!"
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"I only write when listening to the music."
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"Is listening important? I can't think of a single walk of life where it wouldn't be."
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"I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story."
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"If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something."
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