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"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
Flannery O'Connor
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
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"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."
Jon Ronson
"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."
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"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
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"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
Democritus
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
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"Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week."
William Devane
"Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week."
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"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."
Ambrose Bierce
"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."
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"As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fail."
Al Lewis
"As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others "you failed," you didn't fail."
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"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."
Les Brown
"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."
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"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."
Joseph Goebbels
"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."
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"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
William Westmoreland
"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."
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"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
Robert MacNeil
"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
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"Have a definite opinion."
William Safire
"Have a definite opinion."
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"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."
William Graham Sumner
"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."
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"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."
Francis Ford Coppola
"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."
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"You can be young and still have views and opinions."
Joanna Noelle Levesque
"You can be young and still have views and opinions."
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"Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had."
Walter Martin
"Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had."
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"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."
John Morley
"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."
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"Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion."
Charles E. Merrill
"Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion."
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"And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio."
Stewart Copeland
"And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio."
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"No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion."
Robert Peel
"No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion."
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"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."
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"Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window."
Dianne Wiest
"Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window."
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"The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything."
Clarence Darrow
"The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything."
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"In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States."
Paul Broun
"In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States."
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"Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct."
Jane Austen
"Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct."
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"There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions."
Nicolas de Chamfort
"There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions."
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"As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life."
Dada Bhagwan
"As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life."
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"Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie."
Jackie Collins
"Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie."
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"If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not."
Payne Stewart
"If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not."
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"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
Dean Inge
"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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"My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker."
John McCarthy
"My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker."
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"Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality."
Malcolm Boyd
"Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality."
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"I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept."
Paul Broun
"I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept."
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"In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever."
Marion Jones
"In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever."
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"I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion."
Reese Witherspoon
"I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion."
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"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
Robert MacNeil
"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
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"His modesty amounts to deformity."
Margot Asquith
"His modesty amounts to deformity."
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"I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me."
Judd Nelson
"I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me."
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"My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out."
Lonnie Donegan
"My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out."
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"You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier."
Danny Elfman
"You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier."
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"I like America to some extent."
Michael Moore
"I like America to some extent."
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"Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it."
Herman Gorter
"Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it."
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"I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters."
Pat Toomey
"I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters."
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"In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical."
Vinnie Vincent
"In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical."
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"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
Edward Bond
"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
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"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
Mark Twain
"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
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"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
Joseph Epstein
"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."
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"As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion."
Albert J. Nock
"As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion."
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"The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics."
Richard Rorty
"The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics."
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"If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America."
Theo Van Gogh
"If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America."
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