“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”

“Now, after the concert, y'all are going to want to pig out. But you don't want to say you're going to go pig out. So one of you is come up to the other and say, "How about a little fellowship?"”

“I can't hear a word you're saying
Tell me what are you singing
In the sun”

“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”

“What do these feminists want? What do you want? You say equality. Oh! I don't want to seem rude, but …you're equal in the eyes of the law but not, excuse my saying so, in ability.”

“I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.”

“No, you don't want the American people to hear what the facts are, Helen, and I'm going to tell them the facts.”

“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”

“I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes… let it go!”

“And I want to be there when you're coming down / And I want to be there when you hit the ground
Don't go away / Say what you say / Say that you'll stay… because I need more time just to make things right
Damn my education / I can't find the words to say
Me and you, what's going on?/All we seem to know/Is how to show, the feelings that are wrong”