Quotes About Opinions

The only thing I get more than Anthony Fantano hate is Anthony Fantano memes.

As long as I'm happy with myself and mentally happy, it doesn't matter what other people think. Everyone's always going to have an opinion, you can't stop that.

I understand any time you mention Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Jesus Christ in the same two minutes, people are going to talk.

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that.

Having children is messy and easy to judge.

Democracy is messy.

I've had a Japanese judge, a Mexican judge in the past, and they have done some ridiculous scoring.

I think that people in Mexico talk too much.

There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.

Sadly, there are a lot of ignorant people that have access to a microphone.

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

Jessica Alba's very beautiful; so is Sienna Miller.

The five million people who watch cable news are the political nation, the people who really care.

You can't just take and sample size a few hundred people and decide that what you think 200 - almost 200 million people are going to vote and go do. It's a complex country.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Individuals will speak their minds, which I think is healthy.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

among men and not among angels; among men as intelligent, as determined and as independent as myself, who, not agreeing with me, do not choose to yield up their opinions to mine. Mutual concessions is our only resort, or mutual hostilities."*

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

I can't bear that they,and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!It is really these opinions that make the best intentioned people reckless, and actually become immoral!

When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.