Blanket Statements Quotes

• I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.

  Cicely Tyson

  Relationship, Men, Thinking

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• I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

  Brian McKnight

  Writing, Answers, Way

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• Blanket statements are always stupid. NO EXCEPTIONS!

  Craig Benzine

  Stupid, Blanket, Exception

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• I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, People, Slippery Slope

  "Cuban not in favor of booting Sterling". Interview with Tim MacMahon, www.espn.com. April 29, 2014.

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• When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group - there are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world - when you decide to blanket statement that 'Scientology is evil,' you are my enemy.

  Kirstie Alley

  Evil, Goal, Enemy

  "Kirstie Alley Calls Leah Remini ‘A Bigot’ For Attacking Scientology". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2013.

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• I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Blanket, I Can, Statements

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the use or non-use of nuclear weapons. Presidents since the cold war have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace, and I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or non-use of nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  War, Believe, President

  "Clinton, Gates, Schumer, and Kyl". "This Week", www.realclearpolitics.com. August 2, 2007.

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