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“Listen to me. You come into this town, and you think you’re headed somewhere, don’t you? You think you’re gonna get there with a gun, but you’re not. Get me. You know why, ‘cause you got thousand dollar bills pasted right across your eyes. And someday you’re gonna stumble and fall down in the gutter, right where the horses have been standin’, right where you belong.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

“When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say ‘What lovely music!’”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)

“The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly—because if they don’t speak fast nobody will listen to them.”
—Michael Caine [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933)

“The children [on TV] are too well behaved and are reasonable beyond their years. All the children pop in with exceptional insights. On many of the shows the children’s insights are apt to be unexpectedly philosophical. The lesson seems to be, ‘Listen to little children carefully and you will learn great truths.’”
—G. Weinberg. originally quoted in ‘What Is Television’s World of the Single Parent Doing to Your Family?’ TV Guide (August 1970)

“Once children grow up, they don’t listen to their mothers.”
—Chinese proverb.