Quotes About Opinions

Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern

Opinions are the cheapest commodities in the world.

Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody."

The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.

The hero is a device which the historian has taken over from the layman. He uses it because he has no scientific vocabulary or technique for dealing with the real facts of history-- the opinions, emotions, attitudes; the wishes, plans, schemes; the habits of men. He can't talk about them so he talks about heroes.

The educated classes, however, being more highly propagandized (as the educated always are),

Men's thoughts, are much according to their inclination; their discourse and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions; but their deeds, are after as they have been accustomed.

I don't know how their ranking goes or anything else, and I tell people I don't really care how the rankings go.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions.

I'm not really into rap.

I don't like political rappers.

Opinions are 10 a penny. In the spin-driven, PR-controlled world of the 21st century, hard facts are rare indeed.

Joker' is, of course, a character of my generation grew up with, and it's a character you know really well and have strong opinions about. He's been a larger-than-life character in fiction. He's one of these rare characters that have had such strong performances.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.

Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.

I'm happy for people to rate and rank me as they want, but it will never come from my mind.

Audiences don't come to theatres going by reviews. Even if a film is rated low, the collections won't get affected.

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

The people with mean things to say, say them. At the end of the day, the mean things and the good things only drive viewership. So what do you want? You want the ratings.