Backlash Quotes

• CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.

  Rick Baker

  Thinking, People, Tools

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• I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with.

  Jesse McCartney

  School, Careers, People

  "Jesse McCartney Talks Confidence, Future Plans, and Beware The Gonzo!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Winning, Majority, Consciousness

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• Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

  Jo Brand

  Generations

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• 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

  Karl Rove

  Views, Justice, Empathy

  The Rachel Maddow Show, www.msnbc.com. May 28, 2009.

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• There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

  Frank Gehry

  Feelings, Done, Movement

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• I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

  Ed Helms

  Karma, Years, Worried

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• Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

  Marvin Olasky

  Opportunity, Needs, Quota

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• Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Believe, Hype, Criticism

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• I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Actors, Models

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Jul 06, 2014

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• Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Country, Mean, Bihar

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.

  Scotty McCreery

  Believe, Talking, Support

  "Scotty McCreery: 'You won't see any twerking from me'" by Sasha Savitsky, www.foxnews.com. January 22, 2014.

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• The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Internet, Cool Things, Access

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• There's backlash about everything I do.

  Lana Del Rey

  "Lana Del Rey Talks 'SNL' Performance: 'There's Backlash About Everything I Do'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 30, 2012.

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• You have to be able to swim in backlash.

  Kanye West

  Swim, Able

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• Every time the media brings up the tea party, it's painted as racist and extremists - but there's never a backlash, no outrage to those comparisons. ... Working-class people are hurting - and it doesn't seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job - it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Hurt, Jobs, Party

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash.

  Eric Reid

  Please

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash.

  Susan Faludi

  Determination, Children, Self

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

  Susan Faludi

  Heart, Argument, Sexism

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

  Susan Faludi

  Argument, Unhappiness, Responsible

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.

  Anita Sarkeesian

  Hate, Levels, Stranger

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Syncretism can be disturbing to people. They have often been taught, "You have to have solid faith and must be sure of your religion," and so on. They fear that they might be threatened by these new developments and mergings. So you get a backlash against it.

  Ninian Smart

  People, Development, Might

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

  Ken Thompson

  Views, Microsoft, Linux

  "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.

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• the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.

  Susan Faludi

  Powerful, Lying, Winning

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

  Susan Faludi

  Feminism, Lists, Problem

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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