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Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.
In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
As long as my record stands in federal court, any American citizen can be held in prison or concentration camps without a trial or a hearing.
You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.
Government requires bringing people together and genuinely hearing their issues. It requires the establishment and strengthening of community.
To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.
I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.
I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
I'm a fabulous date, I make sure I look good, I like hearing what a guy has to say and I make sure the evening is a real laugh. I like to laugh.
People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.
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.
It's just these moments in hip-hop where you feel invincible. It felt good hearing the music on the radio and in cars, skating rinks, and clubs.
After hearing that he has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Putin said, 'Tell me who the other nominees are - and I will eliminate them.'
I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I cant compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.
What we're hearing from everyone is that they understand that Saddam Hussein is a threat. They understand that he's been a threat for a long time.
I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.
People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.
People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.
The root of disaster means a star coming apart, and no image expresses better the look in a patient's eyes when hearing a neurosurgeon's diagnosis.
All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
A lot of times, if you watch sign language interpreters, there can be some lag time issues. When that happens, I think you lose the hearing audience.
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.
[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?
He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.
Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.
Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
It's a beautiful feeling to be out on the ice, breathing in the cold air and hearing the blades hit the ice. It's kind of romantic.
When you lose your vision, you lose contact with things. When you lose your hearing, you lose contact with people.
Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Seattle SuperSonics.'
No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.
Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.
I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing.
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.