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• You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.

  John Legend

  Negative, Internet, Cloaks

  "John Legend gets down and dirty". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. October 30, 2008.

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• I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

  Benjamin Watson

  Painful Experiences, Racism, Insulting

  Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

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• I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

  George Stigler

  Mother, Asking, Answers

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• The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

  Kenny Rogers

  Thinking, Self, Years

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• People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about.

  Gillian Flynn

  Book, Character, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.

  Trevor Nunn

  Believe, Ideas, Criticism

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• Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

  Michael Arrington

  Hate, Hypocrisy, Political

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• If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Death, Book, People

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• Some actors like encouragement. Some actors prefer to have pressure. And sometimes, for some actors, its better to give your comment by silence, because they are so skillful, so gifted, that they understand without talking too much.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Encouragement, Talking, Giving

  "Wong Kar-wai, Master of Hong Kong Cinema, on His Journey to 'The Grandmaster'". Interview with Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 24, 2013.

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• The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, People, Fans

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.

  Marc Benioff

  Thinking, Resources, Insight

  Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler (2009). “Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry”, p.42, John Wiley & Sons

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• Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.

  Tom Rachman

  Editors, Laughing, Hypocrisy

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• Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy otherwise. But after he began voicing critical remarks about the war and concerned comments about the poor, he was assassinated.

  Michael Parenti

  War, Political, Church

  Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.189, City Lights Books

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• When Barbarossa commences, the world will hold its breath and make no comment.

  Adolf Hitler

  World, Breaths

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• We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid.... We should measure our era by how many people take no notice at all. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, People, Legacy

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.69, Prometheus Books

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• I dont usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

  John Gokongwei

  Political, Politician, Businessman

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• The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?

  Melanie Chisholm

  Looks, Care, Way

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• Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object of the biographer's interest, of the historian's comments, of popular legend, and of patriotic devotion.

  Josiah Royce

  Patriotic, Men, Essence

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• So this is why I can't agree with "don't feed the trolls." When millionaire celebrity broadcasters and entire publications start trolling, ignoring them isn't really an option anymore. They are gradually making trolling normative. We have to start feeding the trolls: feeding them with achingly polite emails and comments, reminding them of how billions of people prefer to communicate with each other, every day, in the most unregulated arena of all: courteously.

  Caitlin Moran

  People, Feminist, Email

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• I should be content
  to look at a mountain
  for what it is
  and not as a comment on my life.

  David Ignatow

  Mountain, Looks, Should

  David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.45, Wesleyan University Press

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• If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Dream, Wall, Ignorance

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• I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments.

  Andy Milonakis

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment that not only are universities a 'cathedral' for worship of knowledge, they are also 'sheltered workshops' for the socially challenged.

  Tony Attwood

  Character, Dedication, Tolerance

  Tony Attwood (2006). “The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome”, p.301, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

  Haile Selassie

  Errors, Political, Growth

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• In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun, but all of my comments are true. I don't lie. If they get mad at me for saying something that isn't true, then tap me on my shoulder and say, 'That isn't true.'

  Steve Spurrier

  Fun, Lying, Mad

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