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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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I like to listen to classical music… I like mainline jazz.

– Herb Alpert

You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

– Hans Rosling

I guess rock stars are role models for the kids who listen to that music. My role models have all been geologists – you know, the guys who are doing fieldwork until they’re 70.

– Greg Graffin

I want to play every game, as does every player. But sometimes, you just have to listen to the manager.

– Harry Kane

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it’s actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

– Griffin Dunne

Pride creates a noise within us which makes the quiet voice of the Spirit hard to hear. And soon, in our vanity, we no longer even listen for it. We can come quickly to think we don’t need it.

– Henry B. Eyring

I’m not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don’t listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?

– Gucci Mane

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can’t tell artists apart.

– Jay Kay

I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn’t cool to listen to country when I was 12.

– Jenny Lewis

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they’re really not listening, or they’re listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they’re so right that they’re not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

– Jacqueline Novogratz

I’ve learned you don’t always listen to your agents and managers. Sometimes they know nothing.

– Joan Rivers

I really don’t listen to Led Zeppelin that much.

– Jimmy Page

They would go back and listen to my matches, and two days later, I’d be fined. Because no one heard it while it was being played, but they heard it on some mic behind the court. Is that the way it should be? I don’t think so.

– John McEnroe

I want our young Latinos and Latinas to write their hearts out and express their hearts out and let us all listen to each other.

– Juan Felipe Herrera

Here’s something I probably shouldn’t be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can’t stand it. It’s just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.

– Hans Zimmer

When you’re listening to the radio, you’re hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and ‘Say Something’ makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

– Ian Axel

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it’s one person, and they’re talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

– Ira Glass

I’m a very slow reader – I read maybe three or four books a year – so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.

– Jose Gonzalez

Books don’t live and die by awards. You don’t listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

– Junot Diaz

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn’t really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

– John Hurt

Listen carefully to yourself. Listen to what you dislike, and you will find most of the imagery is what you have received and registered from other people. We ingest labels from others. Listen more closely, get below that, and you will find the depth of your own heart. There is incredible love for ourselves buried deep within us.

– John O’Donohue

Being a salesperson prepares you for just about everything in business: how to listen, empathize, and persuade; when to back off and when to step in; and, of course, how to close.

– Jason Fried

I know that my cell phone in Iran… is bugged, and they listen in, and my emails, I’m sure, are monitored inside Iran. They have my email address; it’s not like they can’t snoop on it.

– Hooman Majd

I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them.

– Hosni Mubarak

Listen to me: Leek is a vegetable. It can be the center of a dish.

– Jose Andres

I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.

– Ja Rule

The one thing the blues don’t get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people’s throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

– John Lee Hooker

My mom always taught me – you know, little boys listen to their moms too much – that whatever you put into something is what you’re going to get out of it.

– Jay-Z

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most important thing to do is really listen.

– Itzhak Perlman

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