Opinion Quotes - Page 11

• In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

  John Major

  Running, Block, Community

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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• I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

  Jo Brand

  Home, Self, People

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• My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.

  Jo Brand

  Personal Opinions, White, People

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• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  T. Berry Brazelton

  Grandparent, Mouths, Want

  "Advice to Grandparents: Hold the Advice" by Karin Kasdin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2012.

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• I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

  Jeff Bridges

  Directors, My Own

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• People's opinions don't interfere with me.

  Jeanne Moreau

  People, Interfere

  "Jeanne Moreau: 'Living is risking'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2001.

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• The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

  Clarence Darrow

  Strong, Tyrants, Doubt

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• It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

  Jefferson Davis

  Differences, Rivers, Mountain

  Jefferson Davis (1938). “The rise and fall of the Confederate government”

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• One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Government, People, Care

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• But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though, if tequila is legal, pot should probably be legal.

  Ted Demme

  Humble, Marijuana, Drug

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

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• In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Synagogue, Concerts, Neighborhood

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• There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.

  Paul Dirac

  Atoms, World, Mysterious

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• It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

  Plutarch

  God, Belief, Contempt

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• In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

  Alanis Morissette

  Sarcastic, Song, Humor

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• Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Years, People

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• The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.

  Moshe Katsav

  Government, Israel, Community

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty interview, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

  Anna Kendrick

  College, Thinking, Years

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• Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Believe, Average, America

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.142, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

  Elon Musk

  Bridges, Car, Autonomous

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

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• A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Phones, Goats, Fairness

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• I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Education, Teacher, Hate

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• The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

  Henry Kravis

  America, Today, Trouble

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• I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Differences, House, Want

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• I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'

  Tony Kushner

  Art, Thinking, Historical

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• I'm an individual, and I have opinions.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Individual

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