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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Author:
Zhuangzi
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I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.
Author:
Neil Young
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
Author:
William Yeats
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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
Author:
Francis Wright
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The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.
Author:
Francis Wright
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
Author:
Frances Wright
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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.
Author:
James Woods
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
Author:
Victoria Woodhull
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Author:
Mary Wollstonecraft
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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
Author:
Otis Williams
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Author:
E. White
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The more opinions you have, the less you see.
Author:
Wim Wenders
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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Author:
Bob Wells
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The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.
Author:
George Weinberg
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The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Author:
Simone Weil
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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.
Author:
Suzanne Vega
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So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
Author:
Jeff Vandermeer
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Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
Author:
John Tyler
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I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.
Author:
Pat Toomey
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But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.
Author:
Clarence Thomas
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So many men, so many opinions.
Author:
Terence
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The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
Author:
William Temple
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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
Author:
Henry Taylor
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Author:
Booth Tarkington
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
Author:
Yves Tanguy
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It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
Author:
Anne Sullivan
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My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.
Author:
Ruben Studdard
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A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
Author:
George Stigler
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Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Author:
Adlai Stevenson
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
Author:
Charles Spalding
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I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
Author:
William Sherman
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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
Author:
George Shaw
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Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
Author:
Jeanne Shaheen
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I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.
Author:
Pete Seeger
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We all have the right of freedom of speech under the First Amendment. We all don't have to agree with one another on our opinions. Everyone in my circle, that I run around with, we all feel the same about God, country, integrity and character.
Author:
Luke Scott
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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
Author:
Milton Sapirstein
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.
Author:
Ann Rule
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Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Author:
Miguel Ruiz
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I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want.
Author:
Julius Rosenberg
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Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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There are as many opinions as there are experts.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
Author:
Frederick Robertson
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New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
Author:
Ellen Richards
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Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.
Author:
Boyd Rice
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Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.
Author:
James Reston
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Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
Author:
Ernest Renan
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I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.
Author:
Charlotte Rampling
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A great many people mistake opinions for thought.
Author:
Herbert Prochnow
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Money has no moral opinions.
Author:
Abraham Polonsky
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My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
Author:
Steven Pinker
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There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.
Author:
Pauley Perrette
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It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.
Author:
James Payn
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Actors always have opinions.
Author:
Joe Pantoliano
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It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.
Author:
Daniel Okrent
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I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.
Author:
Judd Nelson
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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.
Author:
Yitzhak Navon
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Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
Author:
John Morley
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People's opinions don't interfere with me.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.
Author:
Roy Moore
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It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
Author:
John Mill
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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
Author:
John Mill
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Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.
Author:
Alyssa Milano
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What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
Author:
Peter McWilliams
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Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
Author:
Jim McKay
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Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.
Author:
Charles McCabe
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If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.
Author:
Shirley Manson
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Author:
Katherine Mansfield
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
Author:
Nicolas Malebranche
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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Author:
Joseph Maistre
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
Author:
Maimonides
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Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.
Author:
Naguib Mahfouz
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
Author:
James Madison
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A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
Author:
James Madison
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
Author:
James Madison
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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.
Author:
Archibald MacLeish
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Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.
Author:
James Mackintosh
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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Author:
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.
Author:
Ali MacGraw
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I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Author:
Martin Luther
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I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
Author:
Matt Lucas
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Author:
James Lowell
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My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.
Author:
Lindsay Lohan
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
Author:
John Locke
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Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
Author:
Bill Lipinski
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But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.
Author:
Joseph Lightfoot
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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You can be young and still have views and opinions.
Author:
Joanna Levesque
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
Author:
Patrick Leahy
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Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.
Author:
Wilfrid Laurier
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Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
Author:
John Kennedy
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This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
Author:
Bob Kane
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Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Author:
Joseph Joubert
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
Author:
Joseph Joubert
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I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.
Author:
Angelina Jolie
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If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.
Author:
Darren Johnson
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We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
Author:
Penn Jillette
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I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
Author:
Robert Jackson
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I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.
Author:
Amy Irving
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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In a number of cases dissenting opinions have in time become the law.
Author:
Charles Hughes
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Author:
Elbert Hubbard
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
Author:
A. Housman
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Author:
Oliver Holmes, Jr.
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People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
Author:
Ben Hecht
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I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions.
Author:
Stephen Harper
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
Author:
Edward Halifax
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No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.
Author:
Franz Grillparzer
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It is often more important to act than to understand... there are times... when two conflicting opinions, though one happens to be right, are more perilous than one opinion which is wrong.
Author:
John Grierson
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Author:
Edmond Goncourt
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.
Author:
William Gilbert
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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Author:
Edward Gibbon
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Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.
Author:
Jose Gasset
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We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different methods of filmmaking - and we didn't gel.
Author:
Antoine Fuqua
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think.
Author:
Willa Ford
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Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
Author:
Luke Ford
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And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.
Author:
Aulus Flaccus
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The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
Author:
John Fiske
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You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.
Author:
Jon Fishman
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I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.
Author:
Jules Feiffer
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Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.
Author:
Millicent Fawcett
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How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.
Author:
Cass Elliot
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Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
Author:
Roger Ebert
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
Author:
Adam Duritz
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This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We're all allowed to have our opinions.
Author:
Shannen Doherty
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
Author:
Stockwell Day
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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
Author:
John Dawkins
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The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
Author:
Clarence Darrow
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
Author:
Caleb Cushing
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Author:
Oliver Cromwell
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Art is a subject that is inundated with opinions. In fact, that's all it is about is opinions.
Author:
Chick Corea
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For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them.
Author:
Nicolaus Copernicus
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It was determined, as shown in the report of the Commission, which I can read to you, but I know you are familiar with the report. It states there was disagreement on this issue, particularly as the subject was debated, that there were different opinions about it.
Author:
John Cooper
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America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
Author:
James Cooper
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Aaron is not at all what his image might indicate. He's fiercly loyal and a true and total gentleman. He's very shy but has very strong opinions. He's into everything, wardrobe, hair, script, casting.
Author:
Stephen Collins
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I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.
Author:
Anthony Collins
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Author:
Paulo Coelho
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It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
Author:
Eleanor Clift
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People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.
Author:
Judy Chicago
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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.
Author:
John Chapman
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There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
Author:
Nicolas Chamfort
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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
Author:
Georg Cantor
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Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Author:
Lord Byron
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
Author:
George Byron
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The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.
Author:
Jane Byrne
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
Author:
George Bush
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I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them.
Author:
George Bush
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
Author:
Phillips Brooks
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I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.
Author:
Harold Brodkey
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Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
Author:
Gerald Brenan
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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
Author:
T. Brazelton
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Author:
Louis Brandeis
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.
Author:
Omar Bradley
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I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.
Author:
Robert Bork
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The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Author:
William Blake
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People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.
Author:
Joan Blades
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I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.
Author:
Jimmy Black
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
Author:
Josh Billings
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Author:
Josh Billings
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The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.
Author:
Edward Bernays
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
Author:
A. Benson
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Author:
Walter Benjamin
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Author:
Walter Benjamin
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Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
Author:
Peter Benenson
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Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
Author:
Carol Bellamy
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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Daisy Bates
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People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.
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Rick Barry
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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Hosea Ballou
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The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.
Author:
Fredrik Bajer
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
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Walter Bagehot
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Author:
Walter Bagehot
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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Francis Bacon
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
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Thomas Babington
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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
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Jane Austen
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I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
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Marcus Aurelius
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
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David Attenborough
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It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay.
Author:
Brody Armstrong
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I love Daredevil. I thought it was enjoyable. Okay? There were critical issues with it, and that's why I wear black, some people wear red - we are entitled to our opinions.
Author:
Avi Arad
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Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Author:
Robert Allen
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Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.
Author:
Ben Affleck
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Lord Acton
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
Author:
Edmond About
