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• The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Men, Grants

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• The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Moving, Public Opinion, World

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815”, p.167, Princeton University Press

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• We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

  Penn Jillette

  Believe, People, Needs

  "Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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• You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.

  Rand Paul

  Running, Romance, President

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• The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

  Katy Perry

  Hate, Writing, Views

  "Katy Perry: 'You have to bust your ass at this'". Interview with Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2010.

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• For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

  Jodi Picoult

  Issues, Mind, Important

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• My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosopher, Human Nature, Psychologist

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, People, Judging

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• Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

  Joseph Joubert

  Consistency, Feelings, Fixed

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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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• A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.

  Marcel Proust

  Different, Literature, Made

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Judgment, Impression, Overconfident

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. January 30, 2013.

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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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• People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality, and for that reason sometimes people are not easily saying what they want to say. They're reluctant to express their opinions, and I kind of find that frustrating because I want to know what people really, really think.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Queens, Thinking, People

  "Queen Rania discusses her new book "The Sandwich Swap" with Oprah". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.queenrania.jo. April 23, 2010.

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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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• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

  Dan Rather

  Funny, Government, Public Opinion

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• Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Dan Rather

  Country, Grandmother, Playing Games

  Dan Rather (1995). “The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist”, Hearst Books

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• I think romance is a tool, comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer, move people, make you laugh, perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

  Jason Reitman

  Hate, Drama, Moving

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.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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