Labels Quotes - Page 35

• Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.

  Common

  Done, Persons

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• All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

  Nicolas Cage

  Levels, Aspire

  "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I have a whole system down for returning online shopping: a tape gun, a printer for return labels. That has replaced traditional window shopping in my life, as I've gotten busier.

  Mindy Kaling

  Gun, Window Shopping, Tape

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.

  Eddie Izzard

  Comedian, Well Known, Fine

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2007.

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• If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

  Mason Cooley

  Knowledge, World, Ifs

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• I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

  Albert Camus

  Hypocrisy, House, Cards

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• My business is words. Words are like labels,
  or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

  Anne Sexton

  Poetry, Coins, Bees

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Beauty, Normal, Mediocrity

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• All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

  Maureen Duffy

  People, Patterns, Segregation

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• The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when we are winning debates and scoring points against liberals.

  Kay Coles James

  Christian, Religious, Winning

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• What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.

  Brennan Manning

  Compassion, Heartfelt, Division

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.58, NavPress

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• Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Party, Choices

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.159, Vintage

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• You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.

  Lester Bowie

  Stars, Mean, Thinking

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• When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.

  Peter Gabriel

  Successful, Online, Expecting

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• I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Talent, Music Business

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• I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.

  Meredith Brooks

  Giving, Littles, Helping

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• Before I was not in the television cameras every 5 minutes, I wasn't as visible, but this year I plan on being more visible to ensure that Virgin Rap Division does not lose. Although I am a very low key person, I am competitive, and with every ounce of my spirit, I will ensure that this label is taken seriously.

  Jermaine Dupri

  Rap, Taken, Years

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• It takes so many people to make a success story like that. It starts with the song and the songwriters, then Mark Wright's producing, all of the players that played on it, me singing, the marketing department, the promotion department at the label... It takes a lot of people to make a hit like that.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Song, Player, People

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• Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

  Lee Konitz

  Mean, Play, Names

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• Yazoo is the name of an old blues label and also a town in America. I like it because it doesn't mean a thing, it has no immediate connotations. That's what I hate about so many names today - they're so obviously fashionable.

  Alison Moyet

  Hate, Mean, Names

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• I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

  Jamie Cullum

  Artist, Long, Different

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• I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.

  Alex Parks

  Agreement, Careers, Singing

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• Yeah. When I was 14, my Dad had a radio show with really cool people from Ghent, our hometown, in it. The people who started the R&S techno label, they did a show, and a very well known Techno DJ called Frank de Wulf who was from around there, he did a show, and everybody could do what they wanted. They all started up there.

  Stephen Dewaele

  Dad, People, Radio

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• Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.

  Christian Burns

  Substance, Records, Want

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• I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.

  Ali Shirazinia

  Thinking, Years, Different

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