Quotes About Labels

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I'm a boy. Like Dorian Gray." Dorian who?" I sighed. Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know." Sure thing, Gumdrop." I grimaced. I take that back. Let's stick with Grey.

It is the left that uses the clubs of race and class to attack those on the right; it is the left that labels religious people and traditional values people rubes and simpletons,

He had realized that the labels he had been taking so seriously are human inventions--it's all a game. The Number 68 is invented and the A is invented, so we might as well choose to invent something that brightens our life and the lives of the people around us.

A few years ago if yu said yu were Green Yu were really seen as Red.

Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that.

I don't care what you call me. I'm glad to even have a place in this fashion industry. Plus-size, straight-size, in-betweenie - I don't care regardless.

Everyone in the world, regardless if they're Muslim or not, does not have to adhere to the label society slaps on you.

Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle.

I leave it very open because, at the end of the day, it's one of those things where I shouldn't have to reinforce and state, 'No, I'm a heterosexual' - because that's all nonsense.

I am purely a technocrat and I reject all ideological labels.

I would largely attribute my identity - as it relates to music labels and corporate music giants - to Dave Chappelle and his relationship to and firm standing in Hollywood.

Major labels act as banks in terms of how they produce and release your album. No major label is really good or bad; they just 100 per cent operate as a business, which makes sense... no hard feelings.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

Humans are complex, and I think in entertainment in general, it's very easy to put people in boxes.

But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.

We abjure labels. We fight for money and an indefinable pride. The politics, the ethics, the moralities, are irrelevant.

In this way practice the meditation that observes How all outer and inner phenomena are no more Than images projected by the distorted mind Onto the according bases of imputation Not even an atom inherently exists. Thus become wise in how all things in both Samsara and Nirvana are mere mental labels; But how nonetheless they continue to function By the unfailing laws of cause and effect.

Investigate, for example, a tree. Just as tree is a mere mental label that is Known as neither one with nor separate from its parts, Like it's leaves and branches, similarly all things are Mere imputation of names and mental labels Nagarjuna and his disciples taught in this way.

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

T]here is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices, and what anyone does with a willing partner is of no social or cosmic significance.

The American passion for categorizing has now managed to create two non-existent categories—gay and straight.

Anyway, I'm not one for labels: they change every couple of years like the hemlines on women's skirts.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.