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• It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hate, Book, Writing

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how perfect & honest a person is, there will always be people to criticize. In other words, if everyone agrees with someone, there is something fundamentally wrong with what that individual is doing. If you are not criticized, you are not in the right track.

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

  People, Track, Perfect

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• You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.
  It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.
  From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Fighting, Challenges, Battle

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• It's funny: I spend time in the book criticizing social media, but I'm also aware that a lot of my success is because of social media. I can broadcast myself and my work to thousands of people that are following me or my friends. I do think that social media can be good for self-promotion.

  Kim Stolz

  Book, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize for America and wants to criticize medieval Christian and wants to wage war on junk food. He won't even say the words "radical Islamic terrorists."

  Bobby Jindal

  Christian, War, Islamic

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• [President Bush] recently challenged Iraqi soldiers still fighting U.S. troops like so: ... 'My answer is bring 'em on.' For those of you who may be criticizing Bush for acting like a movie cowboy, let me remind you. He's actually acting more like a movie cheerleader.

  Jon Stewart

  Fighting, Cowboy, Soldier

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• Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Humility, Men, And Love

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• Keith Olbermann is trying to make a business out of destroying Bill O'Reilly. He's done certain things to Bill O'Reilly that I believe were way over the line. I think that's bad behavior. But it's okay for him to criticize Bill. And Bill shouldn't be so sensitive. He should ignore that.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Believe, Thinking, Trying

  "Rupert Murdoch Has Potential". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. September 11, 2008.

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• Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Idiot, Persons

  Roger Rosenblatt (2001). “Rules for Aging: A Wry and Witty Guide to Life”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We criticize people for not giving us what we ourselves are afraid to ask for.

  Marshall Rose

  People, Giving, Asks

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• Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Liberty, Atoms

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• If Obama needs to be criticized, I will criticize him. There's a tremendous amount of excitement about him. And a corollary of that is, as we're learning, from newspapers and magazines that are going into overdrive reprinting Obama editions, etc.

  Frank Rich

  Needs, Magazines, Etc

  Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2008.

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• In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Laughing, Criticism

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• If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.

  Juno Temple

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Sundance Q&A: Juno Temple Is Blowing Up". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2013.

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• The conservative media game was neatly summarized by Matt Labash, a former senior writer for The Weekly Standard, in a 2003 interview on the website journalismjobs.com. Labash explained: 'The conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket.'

  Matt Labash

  Senior, Rap, Media

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• It is not enough to criticize society without offering a workable alternative.

  Jacque Fresco

  Offering, Alternatives, Enough

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• It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.

  Markus Zusak

  Loyalty, Members, Shows

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.291, RH Childrens Books

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• Witness state is not a mental state, it is a state of a spiritual ascent where you become a witness. Best way to practice witness state is not to criticize anyone.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and sisters, criticize your country, criticize all the habits you have and laugh at yourself, is the best way. If you know how to laugh at yourself then you will not object or will not stand in the way of any creativity of another person.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Country

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• Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

  Richard Branson

  Inspiring, Teamwork, People

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• People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, People, Might

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Strong, Honesty

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• You can successfully take a jab at your ex without having everyone criticize you for it.

  Selena Gomez

  Life Lesson, Your Ex, Exes

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• Every time I criticize what I consider to be excesses or faults in the news business, I am accused of repression; and the leaders of the various media professional groups wave the First Amendment as they denounce me. That happens to be my amendment too. It guarantees my free speech as much as it does their freedom of the press.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Views, Media, Leader

  "The Impudent Snobs: Agnew Vs. the Intellectual Establishment".

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• No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?

  Thomas Sowell

  Fire, Liberty, Matter

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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