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Criticism Quotes
"The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic."
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"There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep."
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"My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily."
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"Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that."
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"Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise."
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"I know there are reporters who ridicule pundits."
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"For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker."
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"Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive."
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"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
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"It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism."
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"The most destructive criticism is indifference."
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"For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt."
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"You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism."
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"The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon."
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"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."
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"A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law."
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"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it."
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"The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem."
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"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."
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"To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!"
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"I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions."
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"I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species."
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"The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit."
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"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
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"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not."
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"Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."
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"I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films."
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"You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC."
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"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."
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"Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism."
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