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Quotes About Critique

Religion is induced insanity.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.
~ Mark Rylance
I didn't much care for the 'Dawn' remake. It was a well-made action movie but really wasn't anything like my 'Dawn Of The Dead.'
~ George A. Romero
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
~ Damien Hirst
A lot of the time, when I find myself critiquing scientific accuracy in movies, I have to remind myself that it had to get close enough to getting it right to get things wrong.
~ Randall Munroe
If establishment journalists were to replicate actual stenography, it would be an improvement on most of the work they produce.
~ Glenn Greenwald
When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys?
~ Mike Nichols
When it comes to politics, comedians read between the lines and see hypocrisies and half-truths. And we report those things to regular people who go, 'I noticed that, too!' or 'You're right, that doesn't make sense!'
~ Baron Vaughn
The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.
~ Lupe Fiasco
I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.
~ Julie Brown
Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
~ T. J. Miller
As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.
~ Max Boot
I don't watch 'American Idol.' I don't watch any of that stuff.
~ Denis Leary
I have a bit of a problem with 'American Idol.' Forgive me, but it's difficult for me to watch. I can't help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying 'Glee.'
~ Lesley Gore
Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?
~ Mike Bartlett
To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
~ Bernard Malamud
Mankind lives by its head Its head won't see him through Inspect your own. What lives off that? At most a louse or two.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
~ bierce ambrose ii
You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? Eyes close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day." Yeah, looks like He rushed it.
~ Bill Hicks
Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
~ Bill Hicks
People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
~ Bill Hicks
You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really un-evolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day". Yeah, looks like He rushed it
~ Bill Hicks
By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.
~ Bill Hicks