Quotes About Opinion

Regardless of whether you voted for him, I thought the president-elect's identity as a despicable human being was something we could all agree on. I mean, he pretty much ran on it.

even if I were informed, what's the likelihood of changing anyone's opinion, especially a couple of strangers'? If my own little mind is nailed shut, why wouldn't theirs be?

So which do you like better,State or Carolina? She was referring to the athletic rivalry between the Triangle area's two largest universities...Definitely State. State all the way.

While each of us thought, separately, Amy brought up Fran Lebowitz. Someone asked her what her favorite animal is and she answered, 'Steak.' Isn't that perfect?

In a 1975 Playboy interview, David Bowie caused a furore when he opined that 'Hitler was the first rock star. He staged a whole country.' Oddly, Bryan Ferry would get into similar hot water in a 2007 interview with a German newspaper Welt Am Sonntag, in which he praised Nazi iconography as 'just amazing' and 'really beautiful' and was later forced to make a public statement of apology.

And you were of the opinion propaganda has to make sense to be effective?

And for the whole system to be healthy, all parts of it must enjoy equal freedoms. And the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what they will. Without that, all other freedoms are not merely meaningless, they are shams.

the most fundamental of all those freedoms is this: that persons must be free to read, write, say, and think what they will. Without that, all other freedoms are not merely meaningless, they are shams.

Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse

I hate the enthusiasm of the masses for beauty.

All tastes are expressions of belief.

Well, they got that habit from us. We always wanted to be seen to be right. To be on the right side of an issue. More so even than doing anything. Being right was always the most important thing.

We have different ideas about things. Specifically we have different ideas about what a person is, or should be.

when she'd finished she would give one of four possible judgments. "Zippy"—which was good; "Important"—which was very good; "Controversial"—which could be either good or bad, you never knew; or "Lidderary," which was pronounced with a sigh and an eye roll and was very bad.

I think great novels free us into an understanding that the tension between true/not true might in fact be liveable, might not have to be judged and immediately neutralized in the court of public opinion or in the oppressive conservatism of our social lives.

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

I think that's the beauty of living in America, right? We all get our own opinion, and no one opinion is absolute.

Actually, I love the Abstract Expressionists - or I like the ones I like, anyway.

I personally don't care for abstract art. I have always felt, 'To each his own.' There's art out there for everybody.

I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.

Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses.

It's so nice to see that one's opinion of humanity is accurately gauged.

I'm not a fan of action movies.