Labels Quotes - Page 23

• We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-lifed animal in order to identify the police. And it worked.

  Huey Newton

  Fear, Animal, Pigs

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• The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Differences, Excitement

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, Boys, Emotional

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• I speculate over some of the Anglo nomenclature of birds: Wilson's snipe, Forster's tern . . . : What natural images do these names conjure up in our minds? What integrity do we give back to the birds with our labels.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Integrity, Names, Giving

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.66, UNM Press

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• Create your own individual style. I'm not interested in the girl who walks into my office in a HEAD-to-TOE LABEL look that's straight off the runway. I'm interested in a Girl who puts herself together in an ORIGINAL INDEPENDENT Way

  Anna Wintour

  Girl, Independent, Office

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• I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same reason - I'm so lazy, I hate walking from shop to shop. Powder in Crouch End always has great designer labels in, so when I walk past I have to put my blinkers on because every time I nip in I come out with too much stuff; it's dangerous.

  Sheridan Smith

  Hate, Past, Lazy

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• No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Islam, Gone

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• I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Thrill, Snob

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• One of the problems, hanging out with me, is that I can turn any topic into a toxic horror story. I've lost two girlfriends and a job by reading an ingredients label out loud, with annotations, at the wrong time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Reading

  Neal Stephenson (2007). “Zodiac”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Expectations, Albums, World

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• Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient.

  Pierre Cardin

  Fashion, Design, Identity

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• Lukewarm people feel secure because they attend church, made a profession of faith at age twelve, were baptized, come from a Christian family, vote Republican, or live in America. Just as the prophets in the Old Testament warned Israel that they were not safe just because they lived in the land of Israel, so we are not safe just because we wear the label 'Christian' or because some people persist in calling us a 'Christian nation.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Land, America

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.53, David C Cook

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• Identify the problem.”)
  I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead: “Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.

  Shoma Morita

  Being Yourself, Giving Up, Imperfect Person

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• I really should come with a warning label.

  Tom Upton

  Warning, Should, Warning Labels

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• All of my policy is not based on a label. It's based on what I lived and what I know.

  Nikki Haley

  Policy, Knows

  "Joy Behar Peppers Gov. Nikki Haley with Liberal Talking Points During Segment On Her New Book". www.newsbusters.org. April 4, 2012.

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• There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.

  Nikki Haley

  Country, Jobs, War

  "Gov. Nikki Haley in No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2012.

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• I think any label is bad... I'm more than a label.

  Nikki Haley

  Thinking

  "No Results Found" by Lisbeth Darsh, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.

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• If people stop being interested it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

  Tom Odell

  Song, Powerful, People

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• I've heard other gay people say when they were growing up they felt 'foreign.' Growing up, I was able to label these feelings as: 'I'm a Protestant.' It wasn't until I left, I thought: 'Oh, those weren't Protestant feelings.'

  Graham Norton

  Growing Up, Gay, People

  "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

  James Branch Cabell

  Optimistic, Optimism, World

  The Silver Stallion bk. 4, ch. 26 (1926) See Leibniz 3; Voltaire 7; Voltaire 8

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• Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

  Richie Hawtin

  Kids, Years, White

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• All labels are offensive in some way.

  J Mascis

  Way, Offensive

  "J Mascis: 'I never took it that seriously'". Interview with Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2012.

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• When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Mean, Media, Play

  "Smart Girls Conference 2014: Inspiring Girls to be Bold Change-Makers" by Katy Ma, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

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• Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.

  Daniel Ek

  Artist, Two, Dollars

  "$2 Billion and Counting". news.spotify.com. November 11, 2014.

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• The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Would Be, Cadillacs, Parks

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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