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I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low. ↗

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever. ↗

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#aretha franklin #around #being #flack #franklin

I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years. ↗

— Brett Hull

#couple #cut #earns #extra #get

But that kind of falls in line; when you think about it, James Brown was a funk minimalist. All of those parts create a sum that's larger than than the individual parts. ↗

— Charlie Hunter

#brown #create #falls #funk #individual

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads. ↗

— William Bell

#around #ballads #cole #enough #frank

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. ↗

— Plutarch

#even #how #know #listen #profit

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#know #listening #never #people #racism

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers. ↗

— Trent Lott

#fan #his #i #listens #officers

I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama. ↗