logo

Quotes About Labeling

the world, that unknown utopia, a name: he labeled it "America.
~ Jill Lepore
organic apples at the supermarket may contain streptomycin and oxytetracycline, antibiotics that disqualify meat products from being labeled organic but are still used on apples and pears due to the regulatory quagmire. And
~ Jim Marrs
somebody called somebody else Slotface
~ Joanna Russ
Being typed is not important. For a while vou are typed as one thing. You get out of that. Then you are typed as something else. You can break away from everything except comedy. It's fatal to be typed as a comedian. You can't get out of that.
~ Peter Lorre
Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.
~ Dave Attell
People talk about me being a firefighter, but I have also been very successful. It annoys me that in this country you get pigeon-holed for certain things.
~ Tony Pulis
Our job is to ensure that meat and poultry products are safe, wholesome, accurately labeled for the benefit of the American consumers, and to make sure that they are in compliance with all federal laws.
~ Mike Johanns
If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.'
~ Mary Beard
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
~ Johnny Depp
I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
~ Caitlin Rose
I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly.
~ Julian Ovenden
'Hispanic' was the term adopted by the government - by the Nixon government in particular - and that made the community feel it was being branded.
~ Ilan Stavans
I get irritated by the term 'African writer', because it doesn't mean anything to me.
~ Petina Gappah
Labeling someone as an '-ist' who believes in an '-ism' because of the person's policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style name-calling, cloaked in political terminology.
~ Dan Crenshaw
Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
~ Ann Beattie
I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.
~ Hugo Weaving
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
~ Robert Sternberg
Zaten eninde sonunda her insan?n ba??na gelir bu, sizi s?n?fland?r?rlar.
~ Louis Ferdinand Céline
Medieval Muslim society...labeled as intoxicated anyone "whose orderly speech is confused and who spills his hidden secret...
~ Ronald K. Siegel
o give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonymity, to pluck it out of the Place of Namelessness, in short to identify it — well, that's a way of bringing the said thing into being.
~ Salman Rushdie
The power to label is the power to destroy.
~ Allen Frances
We should not have the ambition to label as mental disorder every inconvenient or distressing aspect of childhood.
~ Allen Frances