Listen To Me Quotes - Page 7

• I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, "Well, you should go to therapy." And I thought about it, but then I said, "Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?" And that's when I got the idea of touring.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Procrastination, Ideas, Waiting

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, June 25, 2003.

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• I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Sex, Writing

  "Women in Music: Lady Gaga". Interview with Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 12, 2009.

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• Do not be deceived by the way men of bad faith misuse words and names … Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial, the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Mean, Men, Opposites

  "The Flame is Green" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 5), 1971.

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• Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

  George Washington

  Learning, Criminals, Crime

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.282, Executive Intelligence Review

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• Many people talk as if they have all the answers, whereas I know I don't. That's probably why no one listens to me.

  John S. Hall

  People, Answers, Knows

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and gathering to listen to me, but I tell you that despite my warm feelings I really do not like you, and I cannot feel sorry for you in any way because there are too many of you and you are not cute at all. You eat too much of my forests; you are a rebellious tribe, and I will destroy you; I will poison your nests with sweet-smelling traps.

  William T. Vollmann

  Cute, Sweet, Sorry

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• Merrily, merrily, listen to me, Flitting and flying from tree to tree. Nothing fear I, by land or sea, For God in Heaven is watching me.

  Maud Lindsay

  Sea, Land, Tree

  Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.122, Heart of Dixie Publishing

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• I started acting when I was five years old. I found it randomly, through listening to my brother study monologues. I auditorally started memorizing them for no reason, and started repeating them to anyone who would listen to me. And then, I begged my mom to let me do whatever that meant because I couldn't put into words exactly what that meant. It just meant me happy. And then, when I was 11 years old, I realized what I was doing and I looked to my mom and said, "Can I make this something I can do for the rest of my life?" She was like, "Yeah, sure, if you want to." And I was like, "Okay, great! I think I might want to do this forever."

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Brother, Thinking

  "Chloë Grace Moretz Talks IF I STAY, Portraying Dark Characters, Playing the Cello, and Making Relationships Work". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 18, 2014.

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• My falling in love with spoken word poetry definitely came out of that time period where all the adults around me were failing to supply me with any answers. Everyone was too busy dealing with things that were more important. I was pretty lost and invisible. And all of a sudden, this world opened up where I could get on stage and perform in front of my peers. People would listen to me and see me, and people would say, "That thing you created was important." And that was so validating and necessary at that specific moment.

  Sarah Kay

  Falling In Love, People, Important

  Source: saseye.com

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• I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Fighting, Thinking

  "Desaparecidos' Conor Oberst: We're perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying". Interview with Jessica Goodman, ew.com. July 7, 2015.

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• Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Clueless, Site, Critics

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• I always show love to the local record stores because they actually listen to me... They know the songs on my cds. They look like me, straight out the hood. They know whats hot and what is on they shelf.

  Webbie

  Song, Cds, Hot

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• I am really passionate about transparency and trans rights issues, so I embrace these opportunities to speak. I try to stay in touch with those who are prominent in both the trans and transparency movements, but more often than not, I am speaking out on a particular issue on my own. I certainly hope that people listen to me and think about these issues. But regardless of whether I had a public venue to speak in, I would still be passionate about them.

  Chelsea Manning

  Opportunity, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always say, when I work with younger actresses, "I'm here." Reese says it, too: "We've lived it. We know things. So if there's anything you want to know." I'm careful not to be the preacher, like, "Now, listen to me!" But I do want to be available. Even in terms of things like finances - where do you learn that, if you don't have people you can ask, "Hey, can I ask you a question?"

  Nicole Kidman

  People, Hey, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have two sons, ages 23 and 25, and know that parents need to listen more and speak less. Young people today don't always know what's going on or how they fit in, and if someone walks up to them and says, 'Hey, kid: If you listen to me I'll give you power and a sense of purpose,' it can hold tremendous appeal.

  Christian Picciolini

  Kids, Son, People

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• What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers.

  Lars Ulrich

  Messages, Looks, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

  Lil Wayne

  Sports, Games, Kind

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• THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him a whole world of things, each man of us his own special world. And how can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself. We think we understand each other, but we never really do.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Father, Lying, Men

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.15, Jester House Publishing

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• So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

  Brian Jacques

  Night, Long Ago, Wind

  Brian Jacques (2005). “Lord Brocktree: A Tale from Redwall”, p.9, Penguin

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• But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Blessing, Being Sad

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Giving Up, World

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• Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Moving, Fowl

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• I know that everybody listens to me, but only my true fans will go and buy my album.

  Young Thug

  Fans, Albums, Knows

  "We Translated Young Thug’s French Interview So You Don’t Have To" by Carl Lamarre, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. September 8, 2015.

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• Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

  Isaiah

  Soul, Doe, Delight

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• I try when I'm writing to leave enough "space" for people to have their own interpretation, and not to direct it toward one conclusion. Then the audience would not be reacting, because they are being preached to or lectured at. I don't have that much to say that I think people should listen to me.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Thinking, Space

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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