Encouragement is life. Many people will have given up in life without encouragement. May your words be gracious to those who hear it.
The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.
People want to hear your stories about these wonderful experiences you have, and that's what press tours are for.
I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if it's about me. I just don't need to hear extra garbage.
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.
People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
Sometimes you hear people saying that there is a secret to get to where you wanna be, but at a certain point, you discover that you are the secret of your success.
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.
People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
I am honest and want to hear what the people have to say. I do not want to enrich myself in this job.
Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'
People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.
I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.
Fortunately we've been shooting in North Carolina which means we're not in LA where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business.
I always vote for the guy I think can get it done. And it ain't nobody's business who I vote for, but I voted for Clinton twice. And that just blows people's minds when they hear that.
Being able to speak to all my fans is really cool - you always hear people cheering for you on the court, but to have messages of support in between tournaments is really motivating.
If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.
