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Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.


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The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.
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Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.
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I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, 'You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.'
Beth Orton
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I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
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I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.
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There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.
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I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.
Joe Biden
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We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.
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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.


Marian Wright Edelman
To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.
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My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'
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Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.


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I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.
Paul Weller
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Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.
Joan Rivers
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
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If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.
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The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
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When you hear 'Truth of Touch,' I believe you recognize that it is me; however it's not the typical Yanni album.
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It's sweet to hear, but anyone who says that they want to be the next John Cassavetes is crazy. He had it so tough. No one would want to walk a step in his shoes. Believe me - I wouldn't.
Alexandra Cassavetes
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