#hearing

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#duke ellington #ellington #fell #hearing #i

When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison. ↗

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

#call #coaches #father #give #give me

Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska. ↗

— Al Michaels

#better #california #december #end #entire

I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy. ↗

— Oliver North

#answered #ask #clear #during #every

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I. ↗

— Barack Obama

#am #approve #avalanche #become #believe

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#better #better life #called #children #could

I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#am #created #else #head #heard

An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more! ↗

— Marla Sokoloff

#agent #annoying #any #became #did

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#empower #fair #grew #hearing #how

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#basic #first #hearing #life #most