Opinion Quotes - Page 18

• The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

  Andre Maurois

  Arguing, Argument, Difficult

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

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• In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Acceptance, Thinking, America

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• But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

  James McGreevey

  Running, Public Opinion, Firsts

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• 'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Beautiful, Song, Incredibles

  "Mariah Carey Goes One-for-Four at AMAs". www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2005.

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• Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Impossible, Emotion

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• We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.

  John Stuart Mill

  Exercise, Individuality, Way

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.210, Hackett Publishing

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• To have an opinion about somebody you've never met before is pretty superficial.

  Heather Mills

  Superficial, Mets

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• I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

  Moby

  Running, Strong, World

  Interview With Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. June 2, 1999.

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• Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

  Moby

  New York, Attitude, Los Angeles

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• It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Order, Lust, Moral

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.312, Stanford University Press

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• In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.

  Sun Myung Moon

  People, Peace With God, Fundamentals

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• Because I have an opinion, I have become public enemy number one to the Fox News Channel and the right wing.

  Michael Moore

  Wings, Numbers, Enemy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

  Horatio Nelson

  Kings, Hate, Men

  Horatio Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793) as quoted in "Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bronte, Etc., Etc., Etc, Volume 2" edited by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (p. 580), 1849.

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• One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tone, Argument

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• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Education, Teacher, Women

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

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• If I wanted your opinion, I'd slap it outta ya.

  Paul O'Grady

  Wanted, Slap, Ifs

  "The New Paul O'Grady Show". Comedy, Talk-Show, 2004–2015.

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• Being an employee is a bad outcome. You want to avoid that. Being an employee is never a good outcome. That's just an opinion.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Want, Outcomes, Employee

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• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Jobs, People, Public Opinion

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• If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Independent, Numbers

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• The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Intelligent, Political

  "The Prevention of Literature" (1946)

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