Critics Quotes - Page 23

• Most of those who spend their lives as critics secretly wish they'd be considered important enough for someone to bother criticizing them.

  Jim Goad

  Wish, Important, Enough

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I think that 99% of the snipers who take shots at me from electronic foxholes also realize they could never withstand the sort of public disparagement, nor the revelation of so many personal details, that I've endured for years and still remain as impenitent, obnoxious, and ready to argue all critics into the dirt as I am. I think this also jacks up their hatred level, because they realize they'd never be so strong-willed.

  Jim Goad

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.

  Mark Shields

  Trump, Supporter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't care what critics and other people think.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, People, Care

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  New York, Stars, Two

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Moral, Filmmaker, Remains

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer and liturgy, of the sacraments, and of the way in which we have an in-built sense of the divine that we suppress to our great sorrow - these are all immense contributions to Christian thought. The same could be said of his commentaries, which are still regularly consulted by biblical critics today.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Christian, Prayer, Biblical

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.

  Rakim

  Reading, Albums, Today

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Malcolm's X objective was actually to reingratiate himself within the Nation of Islam, that because he had emerged by the early 1960s as a very prominent figure outside of the N.O.I., there were critics within the organization that were saying to the patriarch of the N.O.I., the Honorable Elijah Mohammad, that Malcolm planned to take over the organization, which was not true.

  Manning Marable

  Organization, Islam, Figures

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• There were internal critics, sharp critics, who were very opposed to [Malcolm X], and who were very - some of them were members of Elijah Mohammad's family, such as Herbert Mohammad, Raymond Shareef, who was the head of the Fruit of Islam, the brother-in-law of - the son-in-law of Elijah Mohammad. They isolated Malcolm X and kept him out of the newspaper of the organization Mohammad Speaks for over a year, which is kind of curious.

  Manning Marable

  Brother, Son, Years

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• The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics.

  E. J. Dionne

  Issues, Republican, Putin

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

  Jonathan Chait

  Thinking, Symbolism, Substance

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You have all these people in the press who are ringing their hands over fake news stories. That actually became the narratives for critics.

  Joe Scarborough

  News Stories, Hands, People

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I think if you think of yourself as religious and if you're given a gift, some may not think it's that great a gift - some critics. But others might, you know. So you say, look - whether it's good, bad or indifferent, this is what I do.

  Martin Scorsese

  Religious, Thinking, Looks

  "The Modern Lessons Of Martin Scorsese's 17th-Century Epic, 'Silence'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, ksut.org. December 20, 2016.

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• The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

  Bill Murray

  Reason, Wrong Reasons

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I was at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards one year - they called me up when somebody canceled two days before the thing, and asked me to present some awards. So I went, and one of the funniest film moments I've ever had was when they introduced the New York film critics. They all stood up - motley isn't the word for that group. Everybody had some sort of vision problem, some sort of damage - I had to bury myself in my napkin.

  Bill Murray

  New York, Awards, Years

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."

  Jim Jarmusch

  Past, Plot, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.

  Hershel Shanks

  Historical, Done, Littles

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• [Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for understanding life, destiny. But the historical question must be left with a question mark.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Sacrifice, Destiny, Understanding

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "

  Sergio Leone

  Taken, Italian, Men

  Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. September 1987.

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• The Michelle Obama that her old friends remember, that people knew in Chicago, she was a really incisive social critic. She knew how to drive an argument home. People liked her both in the workplace and socially because she was so frank.

  Jodi Kantor

  Home, People, Old Friends

  "'The New York Times' Looks Ahead At Michelle Obama's Future". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, wssbradio.org. January 6, 2017.

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• I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.

  Megyn Kelly

  Jobs, America, Media

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Some [people] may be "servants of the power structure," but that has to be shown. I think it often can be shown, but the burden of proof is on the critic who puts forth that thesis in particular cases.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Burden Of Proof, Often Can

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The Trump critics are legion, and they want him to fail, and my best advice is to just not listen to any of that and wait for Trump to be inaugurated and wait for this stuff to take off. He's gonna need you to continue to support him, folks.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Waiting, Advice, Support

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Those of us and so many other stalwart critics and opponents and questioners and dissidents in conservative media were attacked for doing what those people in the mainstream media should have been doing. Do your job! Subject these political candidates to the same amount of scrutiny that you are now trying to compensate for with the incoming Trump administration!

  Michelle Malkin

  Jobs, Media, Should Have

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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