Quotes About Labels

Everyone has different body shapes, heights. It's unfortunate because sometimes a curvy girl will say, 'I'm a model,' and people will look at her sideways. Then she'll have to say, 'I'm a plus-size model.' That's just society, you know?

Scientific understanding of nature, doesn't make a person religious or atheist. I?t makes a person liberated of all labels. Moreover it makes a person kind and understanding.

SoundCloud took a community-first approach to building its business, prioritizing finding artists to post on its service over making deals with music labels to license their music, the approach taken by Spotify.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

I'll tell you where I stand on the issues, and then I'll let the pundits decide how to label me.

They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?

At the grocery store, kale, tomatoes and berries won't have a single label touting their nutritional benefits," says Block, "but that's only because fresh produce doesn't have much of a marketing department.

Myth # 2: The unchurched are turned off by denominational names in the church name.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

It's normal when there's a new show on the air to say this is the new 'Game of Thrones' or this is the new 'Vikings,' because we need to put things in boxes.

I just want to act - commercial, mainstream, niche or art - my choices are not defined by labels.

Every one called me scruffy, a scratter, that's what they used to call me. I was known as that. Scratter was the nickname.

I always was fascinated by neat nicknames.

I have a lot of nicknames. In high school and growing up it was Beaver. In college it was Gotti.

I don't need any nicknames.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

Actually, I can see one advantage to the Western way of thinking, which is that if someone has a name, you know what to call them, don't you? It's only one small advantage, and there are millions of big disadvantages, including the biggest one of all, which is that names are really fascist and don't allow us to express ourselves as human beings, and turn us into one thing.

names are really fascist and don't allow us to express ourselves as human beings, and turn us into one thing.

These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.

From anti-semite to self-hating jew, all in one day

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

I'm not straight, and I'm not gay. I'm not bisexual. I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.