Critics Quotes - Page 25

• Like many people, I think I'm my own worst critic. And I think I take a lot out in an internally abusive way, looking at how I measure up, which usually was never enough. I never, never was as good as someone else.

  Demi Moore

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nobody who knows me has ever thought I was a racist, bigot, all of this stuff. All of a sudden I'm on the radio and I become one, if you listen to liberal critics. I'm a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. I'm a hater and all of this stuff. I'm none of those things and never have been. It's all because of my political views.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Views, Political, Stuff

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It is hubris, claim the critics of 'absolutism', to suppose that we could ever even approximate to a true description of how the world anyway is. It is bad faith or 'bullshit', respond 'absolutists', to suppose - as the rhetoric of postmodernism implies - that we could seriously live and act with the thought that truth and value are simply our own projections. An attractive feature of 'ineffabilism', as I see it, is that it evades these accusations.

  David E. Cooper

  Bullshit, World, Absolutism

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For me, the existentialists are important critics of 'absolutist' claims, and Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty are, at least in their later writings, also exponents of a doctrine of mystery: Being or the 'well-spring' of everything is, for Heidegger, ineffable, just as what Merleau-Ponty called 'Flesh' is for him.

  David E. Cooper

  Spring, Writing, Important

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I don't have any special advice for America's women, except to know who you are and to put your priorities in order and to not worry about the naysayers and critics say.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Order, America, Worry

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• Know who you are and possess that confidence and just tune out the naysayers and the critics in a way where you feel like you possess a certain patience and perspective that many of us in the bubble lack.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Perspective, Tunes, Naysayers

  Iowa State University Interview, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. February 23, 2017.

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• America is a nation of believers, dreamers and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.

  Donald Trump

  America, Dreamer, Groups

  Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention, time.com. July 22, 2016.

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• I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same.

  Rick Warren

  Real, Reading, Mean

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• I don't consider myself a serious and social political critic.

  Jon Stewart

  Political, Serious, Social

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• Critics, often for good reason, are concerned that the Fed is wielding its vast powers in the interests of the banks and not in the interests of the people. After the financial crisis, Americans have perceived that the banks have been bailed out, but a significant proportion of the population is still in serious economic trouble.

  Gerald Epstein

  People, Population, Serious

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Most progressive critics don't want to destroy the power of the Fed to regulate the macroeconomy and finance. They want to regain control over it so that it better serves the interests of the whole population.

  Gerald Epstein

  Population, Want, Finance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I am being bombed by questions of all kinds. I will try to be very concise and try to explain to the American people. We had a great number of mistakes in the economic fleld, naturally. I am not the critic. It is Fidel Castro, the one who has criticized repeatedly the mistakes we have made, and he explained why we have made them. We did not have a previous preparation. We made mistakes in agriculture. We made mistakes in industry. All these mistakes are being settled now.

  Che Guevara

  Mistake, Numbers, Agriculture

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• I would have been a lot more nervous if I would had known that Matthew McConaughey was [on 30th Annual Television Critics Association Awards] and Julia Louis-Dreyfus was there and all that, and I was like, "Wait a minute and Bryan Cranston's here..." I think I would have got more nervous. But I think thinking it was just like, "Oh yeah critics, we're good." It was great.

  Terry Crews

  Thinking, Awards, Waiting

  "Interview: Terry Crews on ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ superpowers and working with Miss Piggy". Interview With Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. September 27, 2014.

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• I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics, will read carefully, and ponder even more carefully, what Pope Francis had to say about the "ideological colonization" implicit in Western decadence when he was giving robust pro-life, pro-family talks in the Philippines.

  George Weigel

  Warrior, Giving, Pro Life

  Source: eppc.org

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• I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And then I get to matters that are social and cultural.

  Wendell Berry

  Political, Matter, Firsts

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• People send me e-mails saying, "You're a movie critic. You don't know anything about politics." Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

  Roger Ebert

  Years, Daddy, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• The idea of going to school to be an art critic is a very crazy idea. I educated myself in public, which is a very painful way to learn - by writing and then discovering that I don't know what the f**k I'm talking about. But you remember the lessons vividly.

  Jonathan Santlofer

  Art, Crazy, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Plays can outlast even the opinions of the chief film critic of The New York Times and that reviews, although they feel devastating in the immediate moment, are not remotely as significant as the significance you endow them with on the day that they appear.

  Tony Kushner

  New York, Play, Film Critics

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.

  Tony Kushner

  New York, Drama, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm writing as I'm reading. I'm constantly already engaged in dialogue with the critics. None of these are my ideas solely. They are my form of entering into a dialogue with ideas that are already out there, and calibrating how much sense these make to me or not. I want to be responsible to the work that has already been done.

  Douglas A. Martin

  Reading, Writing, Done

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure job, I don't need a wide readership to survive. I'm a participant in the indirect economy, what sociological critic Pierre Bourdieu would call the "economic world reversed." I get "paid" by writing whatever I choose. That's a pretty good position to be in, but I don't pretend for a moment that it is not a privileged one.

  Davis Schneiderman

  Writing, People, World

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I never wanted to do music to get girls, right, to get popular, or anything like that. I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can. I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it. So I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.

  Aaron Bruno

  Girl, Real, Together

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• Tayyip Erdogan wants to go beyond George W. Bush by making critical journalism and critics in the academy illegal. What will be the difference between him and a military government? Very little. I read his remarks on the effectiveness of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. Well, yes. But then the AKP would have to ban all other political parties, close down all critical newspapers, burn the books critical of the regime and gas the Kurds to death...the final solution of the Kurdish 'problem.' Somehow I don't think he is about to do that.

  Tariq Ali

  Military, Party, Book

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The idea that you waited for that particular issue to come out, but then you planned your TV viewing for the coming season, it was a completely different world. And I grew up in Fort Lauderdale, so there was a TV critic writing for the Miami Herald, Jack Anderson, that was very influential. Just to read, every morning, somebody who cared about TV as much as I did - they were an adult, and they were clearly being paid for it. That was an "a ha!" moment for me before I was even 10.

  David Bianculli

  Morning, Writing, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's always been what I would call the William Carlos Williams strain, in which poems of simplicity and clarity are valued by a different community. I was talking to Galway Kinnell one day, and he said that there was an audience for poetry up until about 1920 and then, from that point on, the poets and the critics drifted.

  Ted Kooser

  Simplicity, Community, One Day

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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