Quotes About Opinion

So, even as I deride television, I am fantasizing about propagating this view on talk shows. And even as I give the impression of being coolly indifferent to the opinion of others, I am coolly calculating the best way to impress. What I want is to be loved for never wanting to be loved.

And I know, because I've been there, that there is a hellworld where you're always expected to have an opinion about everything all the time: a judgment, a take - a 'view,' in the most ordinary sense of the word.

Der Kritisch-Aufgeklärte wird zunächst felsenfest behaupten, es gäbe keine Zensur in einer Demokratie, und wenn man ihm dann Beispiele nennt, wird er ungerührt erklären, dass es gut sei, wenn gewisse Tatsachen und Ansichten nicht veröffentlicht würden.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

Persuading a given rando is of virtually zero value.

A person who decrees "That's not funny" isn't in a position to define that for anyone, let alone everyone.

to think nothing about the opinion of his society (if he be in any sense a member) is to be unconsciously influenced by it.

I'm doing this for me. If I don't become as successful as you all think I would be or should be and you think it tarnishes my career, then that's your own opinion. I'm doing this because I want to come back and I enjoy being in the pool and I enjoy being in the sport of swimming.

Men want to be right. Let them, I say. It drives him crazy when I won't take the other end of the rope. "Okay, you're right" are three devastating words.

It's showing Fox News—fair and balanced for those who like falling over.

You are the only judge of whether a piece of art is a piece of art! It's the average man who is the judge. It's not the effete academic who will determine whether a piece of art is a piece of art anymore than an academic can tell you whether a baseball player is really a great baseball player. It's the fan in the stadium that will tell you whether he's a great baseball player.

Good or bad is a matter of perspective

in every war, both sides believe they are in the right.

Uncle sipped some tea. "Ugh! This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!" "Uncle, that's what all tea is," I pointed out. "How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?" Uncle said.

In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.

If your mother likes your drawing of a duck and hangs it on the refrigerator, that doesn't mean it's good." "Snob," Sam said.

Who uses crunchy peanut butter?" he asked the room. "You might as well eat squirrel shit.

He's not only crazy," declared Tom Barrack to a friend, "he's stupid.

Still, Sean Hannity had 5.8 million viewers on the night of the Blasey Ford–Kavanaugh hearing. "That's a lot of fucking hobbits," said Bannon.

If Trump cared about something, he usually already had a fixed view based on limited information. If he didn't care, he had no view and no information.

Nixon, Trump announced, was the greatest president.

Nobody now believed that firing Comey was a good idea;

What a fucking idiot," said Murdoch, shrugging, as he got off the phone.

Islamophobia" is merely a label that radical Muslims use to silence and intimidate anyone who disagrees with them.