Critics Quotes - Page 33

• The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

  Doris Lessing

  Labels, Term, Slap

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• People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.

  Jerry Lewis

  Cutting, Thinking, People

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• The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Lying, Criticism

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.110, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Engagement, Metrics

  "How Social Media Can Destroy Your Business And What You Can Do About It" by Simon Mainwaring, www.fastcompany.com. June 6, 2011.

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• The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Tools, Social Transformation

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• My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

  David Mamet

  Ideas, Perfect, Healthy

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• The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  "Artist to Artist : Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present". Book by Clint Brown (p. 62_, 1998.

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• I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

  Dave Matthews

  Song, Past, Littles

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• I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.

  Dave Matthews

  Writing, Thinking, Fearless

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• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Cynical, Criticism, Doe

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Hate, Jealous, Talking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

  Josh McDowell

  Biblical, Historical, Reliability

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• I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Growing Up, Father

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• Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Oil

  Speech at state dinner forWilly Brandt, Jerusalem, 10 June 1973

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• There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

  Herman Melville

  America, Five

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.681, Northwestern University Press

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• Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

  Henry Miller

  Passion, Mean, Fire

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

  Henry Miller

  Tree, Joy, Done

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.

  Nicki Minaj

  Artist, Japan, Careers

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• I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

  Robert Mondavi

  Drink, Economy, Consumers

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• Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

  Robert Mondavi

  Wine, Done, Economy

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• Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away."

  Dylan Moran

  Children, Going Away, Honest

  "'Half-cut? I'd be entirely cut, sliced and diced every which way'". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2006.

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• In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

  Robert Morgan

  Book, Home, Use

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• The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

  Walter Murch

  Editing, Cinema, Rooms

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• In the U.S. the powerful critics of austerity such as Paul Krugman and Robert Reich rightly identify the decline of 'labor' as a problem, and renewing trade unionism part of the solution. Our opportunity is to make the same case in the UK.

  Frances O'Grady

  Powerful, Opportunity, Austerity

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• Steve Jobs had his critics. Some saw him as an egomaniac, and others, as a control freak.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Jobs, Saws, Egomaniacs

  "Five Business Lessons From Steve Jobs" by Kevin O'Leary, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 8, 2011.

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