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Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees. -- Ryan White
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. -- Tommy Smothers
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem. -- Benjamin Hoff
To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people. -- Juliana Hatfield
People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you. -- James Altucher
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. -- Hugh Hefner
I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering. -- Tao Lin
At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone. -- Mose Allison
The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening. -- Russell Simmons
I'm not one of those actors who asks for too many favours. So when I do, people tend to listen. -- Ryan Kwanten
I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to. -- Fetty Wap
I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you. -- Dan Brown
What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether they agree or not. -- Nouriel Roubini
If people don't know who you are, they're not going to listen to your message. And not everybody pays attention to politicians by watching Fox News and CNN. -- Aaron Schock
The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear. -- Branford Marsalis
I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge. -- Black Francis
You don't need 30 million people to listen to your podcast. If 10,000 people listen to your podcast, which is not a hard number to achieve, then 10,000 people are listening, and you can build a community, and literally change the world just recording into a microphone. -- Chris Hardwick
Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to. -- J. B. Smoove
Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying. -- Stephen Covey
I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can. -- William Moseley
I fill my life with speech, but not with people who are truly listening. -- Jarod Kintz
It's safe to talk openly and honestly with people because they're not really listening. -- Chuck Lorre
Reason #7 For Not Getting a Tattoo: People will know you are running your own life, instead of listening to them! -- Sailor Jerry
Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking. -- Mary Kay Ash
If people are not listening to you as individuals, it's always good to get together and make a stand for something. -- Tinie Tempah
Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you -- Martin Luther
You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully. -- Bruce Springsteen
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear. -- Paul Merton
It's not fair. People claim to know you through the things you've done, and not by sitting down and listening to you speak for yourself. -- Hannah Kent
Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. -- Henning Mankell
Not many people understand that, but if you open yourself to listening - you don't even have to exercise - you get better with time. -- Sergei Polunin
Many people are looking for an ear that will listen. They do not find it among Christians because we are talking when we should be listening. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening. -- Kevin Drew
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You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening. -- Bill Walsh
I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that. -- Sonia Rykiel
Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening. -- Sadie Calvano
The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all. -- Robbie Robertson
People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion. -- John Ridley

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