Quotes About Opinions

I'm amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who hate new sculpture usually find their type of art on birthday cards, pictures of a vintage car going round a hairpin bend and suchlike.

Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.

In general, hateful speech and opinions are protected under the Constitution, except to the extent they are deemed to incite violence or otherwise become illegal. But, at the same time, civilized society tends to frown upon it.

I think people were a little premature in writing off violent movies. They're going to continue being made, and audiences will continue going to see them.

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.

I'm not tough. I'm just not a retiring violet when it comes to airing my opinions.

In the end, the whole Internet thing kills me, because you can use it as a positive thing or you can read into all the negativity. And I think you've gotta put out positive energy, put out cool viral stuff, and then just stay out of people's opinions.

Now with social media, people essentially come into my living room, my virtual living room, and tell me everything that is wrong with me.

Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

Fox News is a virtual public square for conservatives.

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible.

I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.

I loathe and detest people who pretend they don't care what people think about them as if that is a virtue, when it is simply rude.

I think that anytime you're doing casting and you're casting something that has a lot of existing fans you're going to get a lot of opinions about whether it matches fans vision.

ultracrepidarianism, which means "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

What scale do you rate them on?" "I don't rate my lovers at all. Do you?" "You mean other than small, medium, and large?" she quipped.

Funny how people could perceive attributes differently. What one person favored, another rejected.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Their ghosts are gagged, their books are library flotsam, Some of their names - not all - we learnt in school But, life being short, we rarely read their poems, Mere source-books now to point or except a rule, While those opinions which rank them high are based On a wish to be different or on lack of taste.

The goal of any healthy society was to keep people safe to express sometimes unpopular views.

right. The goal of any healthy society was to keep people safe to express sometimes unpopular views.

The goal of any healthy society was to keep people safe to express sometimes unpopular views. But there was a limit to that expression, a line.

Terrible things were discussed by confident people in public places.