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Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. — John Cage
The idea of losing the three at Hayward Field and the idea of losing my specialty to someone who wasn't running his specialty. Mostly, the… — Steve Prefontaine
Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or… — Percy Cerutty
I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good… — Tim Allen
The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it… — Richard Schickel
Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each… — Arundhati Roy
We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking… — Paul MacCready
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. — Robert A. Heinlein
When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But… — Italo Calvino
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced by the folk… — Bruce Hornsby
Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write… — David Crosby
I had a lot of time to myself, and I would listen to a lot of music, mostly music that I knew fairly well and… — Will Oldham
The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion. — Albert Einstein
For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Mattâ€™s deep baritone voice, which even if… — Bryce Dessner
I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home. — Alex Pettyfer
I've just been recording mostly acoustic stuff, drums, and sax, and electric guitar. I'm just still writing songs and what not. — Phillip Phillips
I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life. — Hector Elizondo
Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged… — Deepika Padukone
I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian. — Tina Fey
I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've… — Eddie Murphy

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