"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

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"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

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"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Criticism, Love, Perception

"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Criticism, Democracy, Variety

"The planet is littered with irresponsible gods."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Criticism, Environment, Blame, Existence

"The Mullahs and monks, they must worship you instead of empty rooms."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Criticism, Worship, Religion, Emptiness, Belief

"What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Criticism, Insight, Intelligence, Critique, Perspective

"You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters."

Peyton Manning, American Athlete

Criticism, First

"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

Criticism, Ridicule

"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Criticism, Inaction, Nothing, Silence

"Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

Criticism, May, Publicity

"He saw the article...which was not an expression of ideas, but a bucket of slime emptied in public-an article that did not contain a single fact, not even an invented one, but poured a stream of sneers and adjectives in which nothing was clear except the filthy malice of denouncing without considering proof necessary."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Criticism, Media, Truth, Malice, Proof

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"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."

"The planet is littered with irresponsible gods."

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"What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant."

"You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters."

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"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from."

"Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life."

"We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge."

"I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking."

"When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created."