Quotes About Judgment

People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

Quite a lot of the American rappers will be a bit confused by the humor and a bit lost. But I think you have to give people the benefit of the doubt.

If you tell somebody that you make music they're all interested. But when you say you rap, they just start rolling their eyes at you. It would've taken me a lot longer to get my foot in the door if I'd continued rapping all the way.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

There is a difference between being bold and being rash.

I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

It's not my job to rate myself and judge myself. That's up to someone else.

How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

People will be the judge. They can rate the fights when I win.

Critics never rate any blockbuster well.

We're not getting judged or rated by just our fighting ability. People want to watch guys who are flamboyant and have something to say, and that's just the nature of the fight game and the game we're in. I get it.

If a rating is bad in another sport, do you see a writer say, 'This sport's over?' No.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that.

It is neither racist nor elitist to say publicly what every rational person believes privately - that if you don't know anything about a subject, you ought not to raise your hand or cast a ballot on the matter.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.