Quotes About Labels

commercial popcorn is likely to contain additives linked to asthma. At one cinema, an attendant explained how they add a premix powder. 'I wouldn't eat it,' she said. 'There's a lot of powder, I don't know what's in it.' From reading supermarket labels, I guess it could contain yellow colours – either artificial or annatto – and possible synthetic antioxidants in the vegetable oil, as well as diacetyl butter flavour.

There are some artists who are doing some good music, especially those who are independent, but with labels, I say that I get the feeling of selling soaps.

Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win!

People focus on the labels when they are not sure what they mean. What people call socialism these days is Eisenhower Republicanism!

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.

Back in the early days of my political career, I was called Socialist Cindy. I just hate the nickname Cindy.

I want topeel away all the labelsI had once given to othersand place themupon the fabricof my own identity.They have reflected back to me, everything that I refuseto See in myself.

Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered, or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.

I am an indication of what occurs around me. For instance, some snakes occur in forests, whereas others occur at the zoo. This is something zoos will not confess, for when you read the labels, snakes occur someplace other than in their cages.

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So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.

But I like labels," she admitted. "They make everything so much clearer." Her sister Bree always told her she liked things to be wrapped up too neatly, and that part of the point of life was its messiness, its refusal to be wrapped up. Brett always took the advice with a grain of salt—it was probably Bree's excuse for a messy room, or for breaking up with boys she'd dated without actually telling them.

It had never made any difference to me what people called me, as long as I knew who I was.

I just don't like to be called a 'woman' or a 'lady' because I don't feel like either a woman or a lady. I feel like a musician.

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how far back your memory extends.

In middle school, one day this girl was like, 'One day you wore Abercrombie, and one day you wore Quicksilver.' I was like, 'Hold on... what?' I'm usually really calm, but I kind of went off on her. Because I decided to wear Quicksilver one day, you can't place me? How stupid to have to live inside that box.

I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.

Thinking of yourself as or calling yourself a Buddhist can be a disadvantage because if you wear the title Buddhist that may be an obstacle which prevents others from discovering the human being in you.

If there is an optimistic aspect of preferential doctrines, it is that they may eventually make so many Americans so sick of hearing of group labels and percentages that the idea of judging each individual on his or her own performance may become more attractive than ever.

The question to ask yourself is, Do you always or never do that? Or is it only once in a while? One of the favorite tricks of family bullies is to make criticisms global (blowing them out of proportion) so they seem much more important. Another favorite manipulation is to place a label on you, as in "Too bad you're not a better mother." How would someone know, since they don't see how you are with your kids day in and day out—only on special occasions?

If you ever start thinking that any of them are developmentally more mature than a high school boy, just remember they named their dogs after beer.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.