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listened
«I used to see Jim [Carrey] in comedy clubs and tell him 'This isn't going to get you anywhere. What you're good at is that nice Jimmy Stewart stuff.' Thank God he never listened.»
Author: Jane Leeves
| Keywords:
clubs, Jim, jimmies, jimmy, Jimmy Stewart, Jim Carrey, listened, Stewart
«They (the Secessionists) appealed to the Constitution, they appealed to justice, they appealed to fraternity, until the Constitution, justice, and fraternity were no longer listened to in the legislative halls of their country, and then, sir, they pr»
Author: Robert Toombs
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
appealed, fraternities, fraternity, halls, legislative, listened
«I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.»
Author: Casey Stengel
(Baseball Player, Manager)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
convention, listened, Republican, Republican Convention, stayed, talk Politics, the Convention, the conventions, watched
«I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more»
«I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Advice
| Keywords:
exact, going away, listened, respectfully
«No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| About:
Preachers and Preaching
| Keywords:
elder, in vain, listened, preacher, train of thought
«The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
afflicted, certainty, cut out, forgets, impotence, listened, occasionally, perceives, sink
