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"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
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"Public opinion is to an unconventional idea - what abortion is to sperm."
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"Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right."
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"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
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"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. (1953)"
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"We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice."
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"However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage."
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"They can say I have an opinion about something."
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"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."
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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."
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"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
Opinion
"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
Opinion
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
Family
"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
Family
"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
Friendship
"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."
Time
"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."
Nation
"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
Retirement
"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."
Family
"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."
Quality
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