Quotes About Labels

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Las personas suelen ocultarse detrás de sus etiquetas y máscaras profesionales (médico, abogado, senador, etc.), la mayoría de las cuales ni siquiera existían antes de los años veinte o treinta. Hemos de recordar quiénes éramos antes de que nos concedieran nuestros títulos.

Dali blinked at me. Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left. I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. What's up with the labels? Dali shrugged. You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

I think the most important thing... is leadership. It's something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don't want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.

Every generation trash-talks younger generations. Baby boomers labeled Generation X a group of tattooed slackers and materialists; Generation Xers have branded millennials as iPhone-addicted brats.

I am the youngest of six. There's the smart one and the pretty one, and I am the loud one.

I think that when you use the word 'plus-size,' you're putting all these women in a category: 'You don't eat well.' 'You don't work out.' 'You could care less about your body.' 'You're insecure.' 'You have no confidence.'

Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're the dude from the streets. Or you're the woman who was in prison.

It all started with social media, building a fan base via Tumblr and YouTube, doing covers, and releasing a project with original music. Labels started to peel interest then. It was around the same time I was applying for college.

We so love to stereotype people in this country - I can relate to that myself as I've experienced it. By taking on challenges over the years, I've tried to show people I'm not just some 'posh boy' and that there's far more to me.

A lot of people have tried to put labels on me, but right now I'm focused on being Kristi Noem and getting my message out to South Dakotans.

I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

I'm not a labels type of guy, so every time my coach tries to call me a safety, I correct him and tell him I'm a hybrid.

When you come into this league, everyone tries to put you in categories - 'this is what he is' or 'this is what he can do.'

I'm in trouble with some activist women because I refuse to say I'm bisexual.

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.

A name? Oh, Jesus Christ. Ah, God, I've been called by a million names all my life. I don't want a name. I'm better off with a grunt or a groan for a name.

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.

You see what you expect to see. You see what you have the labels to see. You see what you have the skills to manage. Everything else is a blur.