Labels Quotes - Page 31

• It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag , a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label "Lebanese," preferring the less restrictive "Levantine" designation.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Flags, Speech, Anthem

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.5, Random House

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• Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek.

  Octavia Butler

  Stars, War, Writing

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• We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.

  Albert Wohlstetter

  War, Learning, Mean

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• I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from being symbolic, be seems to me, through and almost biological naturalism, to arrive at the spiritual truth about human life that is important to him.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Spiritual, Symbolism, People

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 149), 1986.

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• Increasing numbers of Pagans are identifying themselves as animists or naming their worldview as animism. Some Pagans use the term animism to refer to one strand within their Paganism, while others identify it as the most appropriate label for everything they do.

  Graham Harvey

  Numbers, Use, Paganism

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• Part of the true luxury of "earned laziness" are the braggin rights that come along with being purposefully and publicly lazy. It is a badge of distinction, an emblem of success, without having to say too much about it. It labels us, affords us kudos, and raises our profile in the "pecking order" of our fellow troglodytes. It says to others, "See, I've done so well that I can afford to do nothing at all whenever I so choose!

  Al Gini

  Order, Luxury, Rights

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• Avant garde" has become a ubiquitous label, eclectically applied to any type of art that is anti-traditional in form. At its simplest, the term is sometimes taken to describe what is new at any given time: the leading edge of artistic experiment, which is continually outdated by the next step forward.

  C. D. Innes

  Art, Taken, Next Steps

  C. D. Innes (1993). “Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992”, p.1, Psychology Press

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• We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

  Jacoby Shaddix

  Feet, People, Fans

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• The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Principles, Politics

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.116, TAN Books

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• The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

  Michael Bay

  Nice, Simple, Brain

  "How Much Bigger Can The Bang Get?". Interview with Amy Wallace, articles.latimes.com. August 9, 1998.

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• I finally made up my mind that I would neither disclaim the black race nor claim the white race; but that I would change my name, raise a mustache, and let the world take me for what it would; that it was not necessary for me to go about with a label of inferiority pasted across my forehead.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Race, Lynching, Names

  James Weldon Johnson “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You can think whatever you want, you can create all the labels you choose, but the universe just is. You can come to terms with it or not. If you don't come to terms with it, we say you live in illusion.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Want, Illusion

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• If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.

  Charles Haynes

  Christian, Religious, Holiday

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• I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

  Steven Morrissey

  Artist, Thinking, Discovery

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

  Steven Morrissey

  Records, Maps, Internet

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Being independent is more of a mind state more than anything else. A lot of people don't understand that being an independent artist means being hands on with your career in every aspect - not being afraid to spend your own money and invest time in yourself. Although I'm affiliated with a major label, I still wake up every day with an independent mindset.

  Yo Gotti

  Mean, Independent, Artist

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• I haven't had a big-ass feature, somebody put me on a label, cash money didn't come scoop me up. I've literally put myself into millionaire position. All the stuff I've done and I'm doing has nothing to do with nobody. I don't owe anybody anything. No wife, no kids - I don't owe nobody nothin'.

  Riff Raff

  Kids, Wife, Done

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• I'm a business man and the reason I linked up with a major was because I understand they have that reach that I can't get no matter how hot I get in the streets. It's not always about money because I been had money. I want to be on TV and win awards. I want to be number one. You need a label to get through barriers.

  Yo Gotti

  Winning, Men, Awards

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• It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

  Ann Coulter

  Dog, Mean, Differences

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• I don't have a problem with many uses of the word genre, just certain ones. I have the most trouble when these labels are used to prevent discussion, to prevent a work from being taken seriously as literature. When we say "genre," we generally mean "something crappy," something that would be sold in an airport.

  Michael Chabon

  Taken, Mean, Airports

  Interview with Elizabeth Benefiel, www.avclub.com. July 5, 2007.

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• Louisville is a place with no labels. It’s not the South, it’s not Chicago, and you don’t think of it as you think of New York or LA. It has some Southern romanticism to it, but also a Northern progressivism, this weird urban island in the middle of the state of Kentucky that has always provided a fertile, often dark, bed. For us, Louisville and the surrounding areas are the center of massive creativity and massive weirdness. The place has its flaws: You move away, but you’re always going to come back.

  Jim James

  New York, Moving, Creativity

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• Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.

  Rose Macaulay

  Time, Flower, Past

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Told by an Idiot”, p.66, A&C Black

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• Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank.

  Gloria Steinem

  Enemy, Links, Hierarchy

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• Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue.

  Diane Ackerman

  Reality, Self, Mindfulness

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• When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

  Jill Sobule

  Song, Thinking, Artist

  "Sponsor Jill Sobule's album, get a spot on it". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2009.

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