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• We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will...authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president's acts declared unconstitutional.

  Arlen Specter

  Views, President, United States

  «Bush meets with the Iraqi PM as some in Congress question alliance» by Mark Preston, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2006.

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• I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty.

  Florence King

  Writing, Crowns, Literature

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• From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Years, People, What If

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've never read a review from anybody that said, "I don't want to watch this anymore because it's just too funny. I laughed too much."

  Jack Kenny

  Watches, Want, Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't watch dailies. I don't pretend not to read reviews, I just don't. I wait for it to come on the air, just like everybody else.

  Jeff Daniels

  Air, Waiting, Watches

  "Aaron Sorkin, Alan Poul, and Jeff Daniels Talk THE NEWSROOM Season 2, Responding to Critics, and More at PaleyFest". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. March 4, 2013.

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• Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

  John F. Kennedy

  Library, October, Should

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• I was planning on writing a detailed review of several books on web security tonight, but the Obama collapse has superseded my best-laid plans. Here’s another open thread for this important topic, as America wrestles with the issue of whether it would be a good idea to elect a President with a 20-year history of associating with people who hate America.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Hate, Book, Writing

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• The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.

  Ishmael Reed

  Art, New York, Book

  Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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• There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.

  Jane Austen

  Wish, Novelists, Genius

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• The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Law, Magazines, Literature

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.291, Bottletree Books LLC

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• Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Lying, Thinking, Issues

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• Mushy reviews are a breach of faith

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Breach

  Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I stopped reading reviews about my own movies. I read stuff about other people's movies.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Reading, People, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

  Louis Aragon

  Book, Should, Subjects

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• I don't read reviews. Just because that is something that's directly connected to my job. I'm doing this because I love it, not because I'm necessarily looking for approval or anything like that. To me, it seems that reading reviews - whether they're good ones or bad ones - can only sort of force the person to divorce themselves from the reality of what it is they do for a living. So I don't read reviews.

  Kate Winslet

  Jobs, Reading, Divorce

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.

  Randall Jarrell

  Evil, Heaven, Demand

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Contemporary Poetry Criticism" (p. 59), 1980.

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• Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that takes place in areas related to politics and policy-making by elected officials. That special risk justifies especially strong pro-speech judicial presumptions. It also justifies careful review whenever the speech in question seeks to shape public opinion, particularly if that opinion in turn will affect the political process and the kind of society in which we live.

  Stephen Breyer

  Strong, Policy Making, Law

  "Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution". Book by Stephen Breyer, 2008.

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• Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

  Lord Byron

  Years, Evil, Lines

  "Learn to love the critics. Even the stinkers" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2005.

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• The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  School, College, Paper

  "A Message About Messages". Personal Website, www.ursulakleguin.com.

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• it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Past, Ideas

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons

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• I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

  Oscar Levant

  Bad Reviews, My Friends

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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• Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.

  Bruce Willis

  Dinosaurs, Way, Written Word

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• There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Careers, Virginia

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• I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up.

  Andrew Davies

  Numbers, Ridiculous, Classic

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• If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Writing, Islands, Video

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