Opinion Quotes - Page 13

• At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Courage, Men, Bravery

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• I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

  Cher

  Fame, Knows

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• When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Law, Abuse

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• I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Bullying, Children, Bumps

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• Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult things that it does.

  Nick Clegg

  Government, Order, Needs

  The Economist interview, www.economist.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Luxury, Important Relationships

  "George Clooney on Fame, Failure & Success, Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ and ‘Monuments Men’" by Sophia Savage, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2012.

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• I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.

  Andy Cohen

  Games, Play, Watches

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• Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.

  Stephen Colbert

  Country, Mean, Perception

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.

  Gail Collins

  Writing, People, Narrative

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• I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

  Sean Connery

  Political Opinions, Target, Easy

  "SNP backs 007 star over tax bill" by Tom Happold, www.theguardian.com. March 06, 2003.

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• I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Inspirational, Dance, Mean

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• We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Eye, Men, Presence Of Mind

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.184, Transaction Publishers

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• It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

  James F. Cooper

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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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.

  James F. Cooper

  Religious, America, Different

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Different, Reason, Profession

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• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

  Walter Cronkite

  Objectivity, Magazines, Journalism

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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.

  Clarence Darrow

  Strong, Tyrants, Doubt

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• It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

  Jefferson Davis

  Differences, Rivers, Mountain

  Jefferson Davis (1938). “The rise and fall of the Confederate government”

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• But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

  Ted Demme

  Humble, Marijuana, Drug

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Synagogue, Concerts, Neighborhood

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• There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

  Paul Dirac

  Atoms, World, Mysterious

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• I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Revolution, Rebellious, Has Beens

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2490, Delphi Classics

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• Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.

  Snoop Dogg

  Daughter, Mother, Voice

  "Snoop Dogg: 'Women are getting empowered. Now I have a daughter, I understand'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Cute, Girl, Boys

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