Quotes About Judgment

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

In the mainstream, I'm suspect because I'm black. I have dreadlocks, I have a goatee. I mean, I'm just suspect. In my classroom and at Columbia, I'm not as suspect because it's clear I know what I'm doing, but I am still suspect.

People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

We've met so many people you'd never even suspect of being Slayer fans: suits, lawyers, and people like that.

It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

When I step out of my front door, I have to paint on a bright, big smile to make sure people treat me kindly rather than with suspicion, or assume that I'm going to be aggressive.

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

I'm always suspicious when a guy takes his date on a walk, because it reeks of poverty and an inability to plan.

I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.

I worked in casting for about five years before I became a director, and that taught me a huge amount because you never actually will see the character walk through the door - and if you do, then you have to be slightly suspicious of that.

I'm suspicious when I go to someone's house and everything is beautiful and perfect. Authenticity often means mistakes.

One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.

I know what the narrative is on me. It's because I come from money and I have a swagger and confidence about me.

We women continue to swallow this line that it's unladylike or even proof of being a lesbian if you wear flat shoes like Doc Martens. I'm prepared to put up with that accusation, because at least my feet aren't killing me and I don't look like a bandy ostrich.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.

In the graver and more sentimental communication of man and man, the head still bears the superior sway; in the unreserved intimacies of man and woman, the heart is ever uppermost. Feeling is the main thing, and judgment passes for little.

I think human beings are drawn to other human beings who are beautiful or handsome. I do think that it probably helps to sway people towards liking somebody, if they're handsome or if they're fit or if they dress good. It probably shouldn't be that way but it's almost like human nature.

I was bullied from the age of 11 onwards. I was always much bigger than the other kids. I spoke nicely, didn't swear, and I refused to try to fit in and be like everyone else. People assumed I thought I was above everyone else.