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Quotes About Critique

Technology. It's like science, only useless.
~ Jon Stewart
I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.
~ Vilmos Zsigmond
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm thankful for all of you. I am not thankful for the pilgrims. Buckles should never be on hats.
~ Bo Burnham
The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.
~ John Henrik Clarke
I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.
~ Slavoj Zizek
Late night television is ready for someone like me... standards have gone to an all-time low.
~ Howard Stern
We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.
~ Lecrae
My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
~ Marie-Antoine Careme
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
~ Gioachino Rossini
I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
even the outright deletions that Ayn Rand's editor should have taken care of).
~ Anna Quindlen
Hmmm," my mother said, like she did when I gave her a composition to read and she was going to tell me to take another shot at it.
~ Anna Quindlen
Founder's Chic: Our Reverence for the Founding Fathers Has Gotten out of Hand, Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 2003.
~ Annette Gordon-Reed
Jawaharlal Nehru put it sharply: the Indian Civil Service, he said, was 'neither Indian, nor civil, nor a service'.
~ Shashi Tharoor
Shoving hot bread up a roasting bird's ass & feasting on it seems like an apt celebration of colonialism.
~ Sherman Alexie
Nice knees, bud, but the hairy legs could use a Bush Hog. (Kyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.
~ Dennis Prager
I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
Unless you plan on making academia your life, all you need to know about postmodernism is that its premises are fundamentally wrong.
~ Tucker Max
Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself.
~ John Shelby Spong
The first reason is their majesty and their associated arrogance (Is 13:11, 19), which fits with the earlier critique of Assyria and of Judah itself (cf. also Is 16:6).
~ John E. Goldingay
The Church must go, it is the haven of the booboisie, of boobs and bounders and all brummagem mountebanks.
~ John Fante