"Songs are as sad as the listener." — Jonathan Safran Foer
"Songs are as sad as the listener."
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526 Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart;…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or…
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More Listener Quotes
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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that's what inspires her, then let her do it.…
— Luke Bryan
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You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will…
— Jimmy Buffett
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I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that…
— Amanda Burton
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether…
— Tori Amos
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Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener.…
— Byron Katie
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The fluent reader sounds good, is easy to listen to, and reads with enough expression to help the listener understand…
— Charles Clarke
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Talk passionately and act compassionately. The only thing you can do in your life to win the world is to…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about…
— Barry Lopez
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This is the sense in which I am obliged to be a listener. To listen to the student's doubts, fears,…
— Paulo Freire
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Be a good listener...It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
— Wayne Dyer
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