Opinion Quotes - Page 17

• The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Atlanta, Boston

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• If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Suicide, Nature

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.158, Vintage

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• In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.

  Heath Ledger

  New York, Cities, Brave

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• The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

  Jim Lehrer

  Stories, Firsts, Shouting

  "Jim Lehrer is stepping aside for a dual-anchor format on PBS's 'NewsHour'" by Howard Kurtz, www.washingtonpost.com. November 30, 2009.

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• Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Peace, Soul, Indifference

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 11, 1799.

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• It's impossible to go through life not offending people. All you have to do is basically have an opinion on anything, and you're gonna offend people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Offending, People, Impossible

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• The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you...

  Rush Limbaugh

  Depressing, Public Opinion, Tools

  "'Skewed' Polls, ACORN, And Right-Wing Delusion" by Eric Boehlert, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  Walter Lippmann

  Public Opinion, Citizens, Comeback

  Walter Lippmann (2007). “Public Opinion”, p.368, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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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.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Beautiful, Mother, Little Sister

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• The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1780, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Hands, Wish

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• I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

  Norm MacDonald

  Religious, Thinking, Political Opinions

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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.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Freedom, Silence, Liberty

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• It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fighting, Thinking, Long

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• A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

  James Madison

  Communication, Men, Liberty

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.478

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• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

  Maimonides

  Understanding, Philosopher, Imagine

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.283, Moses Maimonides

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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.

  Maimonides

  Men, Views, Opposites

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.282, Moses Maimonides

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• Radical transparency has an enormous impact on our personal lives. We can no longer share thoughts, quips, photos or personal opinions anywhere on the web without being mindful that they may turn up where we least expect it (notably job interviews, divorce proceedings or public media).

  Simon Mainwaring

  Jobs, Divorce, Media

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• In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

  John Major

  Running, Block, Community

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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• The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.

  Thomas Malthus

  Taken, Men, Discovery

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1986). “The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus”

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• If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.

  David Mamet

  Jobs, Writing, Political Opinions

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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.

  Shirley Manson

  Ifs, Fiery

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• I never minded giving my opinions. They are just opinions, and I had studied music and I had strong feelings. I was happy for my opinions to join all the other opinions. But you have to be prepared for what comes back, especially if you don't agree with the dominant mythology.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Strong, Others Opinions, Giving

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• 'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

  Judith Martin

  Honesty, Talking, Names

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• I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Race, Giving

  The Summing Up

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