Quotes About Judgment

It wasn't that I was shy to go out with him, I just didn't want people with preconceived notions to assume anything about why we were together. I was pretty careful for a while.

I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me.

I was cripplingly shy. When I was in high school, my teachers thought I was mentally disabled because I wouldn't be able to say anything or do anything. They thought I didn't speak.

It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

I've always felt very insecure being around in-laws, even my siblings - like the guy who made a bad decision, or the guy who would never just fess up that I'm not good enough to make it, or I don't have what it takes.

If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.

I'm so sick and tired of women who are pro-breastfeeding - which is awesome - putting down other women who either don't want to do it, don't like it, have bad feelings about it, or physically can't do it.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

It's a lot easier to opine from the sidelines.

Election losses are always an inkblot test for partisans. If a candidate's defeat has no clear and obvious cause, if the data points are all over the map, it is easy for those on the sidelines to claim, 'Candidate X would have won if only he or she had been more like... me.'

You think of a criminal, and you already judge them for the crime, and you don't really see the human side of them. We all have our sides that we're not proud about.

If you have empathy for both sides, then that's the same as having no empathy at all.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

There are two sides always - when something works, it is hailed, but when something doesn't, it is all criticism.

I love giving you my opinion, but I don't like taking sides.

I was interested in the human journey, the conundrum of when the right and wrong of both sides get murky. You have to make some very strong choices that you'll have to live with.

Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

There is no sign saying 'good Muslim' or 'bad Muslim.' How many lives will be lost or destroyed trying to determine who is good or who is bad?

When you go into a film, you read it, and something clicks for you, and you like it, and you sign on for it; you go for it. You know that this is going to be a good film, and that is your best hope. Past that, it's a crap shoot - you roll the dice.

Goal-line technology is a good thing. The ref gets the signal and can decide based on that.

You can tell a lot about a woman by her email signature. Actually you can't but for some reason people do anyway.

When I signed 'Kaaka Muttai,' a lot of directors told me that I shouldn't be doing the role of a mother so early in my career. But I went ahead, as I aspire to do challenging roles.

All the films that I have signed or I intend to sign are purely on the basis of merit of what the films are about.