Opinion Quotes - Page 13

• I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.

  Jessica Simpson

  Book, Self, Noble

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• The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

  Adam Smith

  Change, Numbers, Facts

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• I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever.

  Marc Jacobs

  Rain, Thinking, Long

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• Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Differences, Office

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.128, Hackett Publishing

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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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• I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

  Salman Rushdie

  New York, Writing, Years

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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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• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  Salman Rushdie

  Europe, England, World

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• In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Equality, America

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.154, Routledge

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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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• If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Happiness, Ignorance, Men

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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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• Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, World, Stale

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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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• Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Stars, Independent

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• When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Males, Female

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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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