Labels Quotes

• Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Lgbt Pride, People

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• Once you label me you negate me.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Inspirational, Life, Names

  "Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling", Vol. 2 by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33, 1976.

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• The will to label will always prevail over what's being labeled,
  usually at the expense of either truth or understanding

  Boyd Rice

  Understanding, Truth Will Prevail, Expenses

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• Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

  Charles Spurgeon

  Too Much, Fables, Christianity

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• Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

  John Shirley

  Mean, Artist, People

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• It was important to me to find a label that wouldn't back out after a first single. Everyone's so used to hearing me with Hootie, they're going to be skeptical.

  Darius Rucker

  Important, Hearing, Firsts

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

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• The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Wisest Man, Judging

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.408, Dell

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• To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

  Dick Cavett

  Intellectual, Misunderstanding

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• Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

  John Ciardi

  Love, Relationship, Romance

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• I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

  Judy Holliday

  Book, Cereal, Hands

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• I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

  Zoe Saldana

  Character, Black, Female

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• I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me

  Rosanna Arquette

  Artist, Musician, Music Love

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• Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Helping, Genre, Audience

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• A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

  Taylor Hanson

  People, Hiring, Accountants

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• I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

  Siouxsie Sioux

  Hate, Video, Band

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• I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason.

  Chuck Mangione

  Ideas, People, Want

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• I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

  Joshua Homme

  Thinking, Want, Bigger

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• By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

  Jerry Rubin

  Gun, Pigs, Revolutionary

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• Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

  Randy Bachman

  Sound, Copycats, Branded

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• I don't put labels on myself.

  John Engler

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• Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Life, Motivational, Fear

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• The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Genius, Politics

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• We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

  Geoffrey Holder

  Fighting, Free Spirit, Want

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• Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Integrity, Past, Essence

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  Ornette Coleman

  Expression, Different, World

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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