Quotes About Opinion

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

The only way to combat falling into the opinion trap is to follow Rand's lead: think before you answer—if you even answer.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Why would the Bible equate stubbornness with the sin of idolatry? Because it is the worship of our own opinion. Stubborn people are hard to deal with because they are filled with pride and can't acknowledge any thinking that doesn't align with their own.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day.

I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times.

I like a writer who cares and takes sides. Pretending to be unbiased is only another kind of bias, and pretending to be dispassionate is often a way of supporting the status quo.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

For weeks, [Sonia] Sotomayor had seen drafts of Ginsburg's opinion as it circulated among the justices. She knew she was about to be a public target. But she would have the courage of her convictions - perhaps stubbornly, misguidedly - yet with confidence enough to be the one in an 8-1 vote.

My gods or your gods, who know which are stronger?' That's why we honor them all - just in case. There are more cultures even than Gods in the Eight Worlds, and among them you'll find people who are willing to kill you, or each other, over any difference in belief or lifestyle or physical appearance you can imagine - and some you can't. They all think they're right. There's no Truth, Tammis, only differences of opinion.

I know music is subjective.

Cause I'm not really a Dr. Seuss fan." I stared at her, startled. "Em, you gotta be a fuckin' communist, you don't like Dr. Seuss. Jesus.

Son muchos los que sostienen que no hay cosa más erótica que el poder. A mí me parece que no saben una mierda de erotismo...

You look like a crazy person," Adri said. "You look boring and average," Lily replied.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

It is well-known, that a weak mind, rather than have such a suffering, will turn aside, and take shelter in willing credulity to its first opinion; a strong one, meeting the worst at once, will proceed straight forward, and, freeing itself from an uncertainty, will do both that, which is just towards others, and, in the end, best for its own ease.

First of all, if I were a girl I'd much rather marry you than Broadmore—" "Yes, well, you're obviously not a girl, so your opinion on the matter is rather suspect." "And," Silverton said, ignoring the interruption, "you're also one of the richest men in England. Parents love to marry their daughters off to men like you." Nigel

I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.