L Quotes
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“Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody. That is MLK, that is Dolores Huerta, that is Fannie Lou Hamer, that is Ella Jo Baker, that is Nelson Mandela. You walk down the line.”
“Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.”
“Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.”
“Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.”
Source: Norwood
“Listen, I am in the fighting game, I don't care about anything else.”
“Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and I'm not ashamed to use 'em. Having a face Adonis would admire is one of the few advantages I've been given in life, and I use it to it's full potential whether it's for good or evil.”
Source: Rules of Attraction
“Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.”
“Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.”
“Listen, I have been educated.
I have learned about Western
Civilization. Do you know
What the message of Western
Civilization is? I am alone.”
Source: I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014
“Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.”
“Listen, I know how old I am and that I'm just a shoulder injury from losing roles like the one in Taken. So I stay with the training, I stay with the work. It’s easy enough to plan jobs, to plan a lot of work. That's effective. But that’s the weird thing about grief. You can’t prepare for it. You think you’re gonna cry and get it over with. You make those plans, but they never work.”
“Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing.”
“Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.”
“Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the reports of flying saucers are the results of the known irrational characteristics of terrestrial intelligence than of the unknown rational efforts of extra-terrestrial intelligence.”
“Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.”
“Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.”
“Listen, I was the first black manager in baseball and there was incredible pressure. I don't blame anyone else. I was too tough . . . I lack patience. I probably got on guys a little too hard, with the wrong tone of voice.”
“Listen, I would love to win an Emmy at some stage or another. I can't pretend not to.”
“Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to.”
“Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with.”
Source: My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
“Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.”
“Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.”
“Listen, I'm not afraid of anything. I'm Colombian.”
“Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.”
“Listen, I've always been very headstrong.”
“Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.”
“Listen, if anything happens to Yoko and me, it was not an accident.”
“Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog.”
“Listen, if my career was to end tomorrow, I would have no complaints whatsoever.”
“Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.”
“Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.”
“Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.”
“Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.”
Source: The Bernice L. McFadden Collection: Gathering of Waters, Glorious, The Warmest December, and Nowhere Is a Place
“Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.”
“Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no.”
“Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.”
“Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I'm embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.”
“Listen, if you're a defender, DO BETTER!”
“Listen, if you're a hardworking steelworker or truck driver, that drives down your wages. That takes away your jobs.”
“Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.”
“Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented.”
Source: The Brothers Karamazov
“Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.”
“Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.”
“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...”
“Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma”
“Listen, listen, listen.”
“Listen, Michael Jackson is really funny. To have time to spend with him and actually be around him, he's not what....people think he is. Michael Jackson's like a black belt too, so he will kick your ass if you say something about him." In disbelief the interviewer replied "No, really?" to which Will said, "Yes, Michael Jackson kicked over my head!”
“Listen, Mr. President, there's a no-fly zone in Syria. You fly in, it applies to you. And, yes, we would shoot down the planes of Russian pilots if, in fact, they were stupid enough to think that this president was the same feckless weakling that the president we have in the oval office is right now.”
“Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.”
“Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.”