Labels Quotes - Page 23

• For quite a while I called myself a workaholic. I was proud of that label. Then one day it hit me; a workaholic is a label for an unproductive person.

  Mike Michalowicz

  One Day, Proud, Workaholic

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• Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Cities, Dysfunction, Attachment

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• With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.

  Ian MacKaye

  People, Greed, Napster

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• Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  Truth, Reality, Roots

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• The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it with a whimsical tone, despite the fact that it's about death, makes it hard to characterize with standard genre labels - but I have no problem with that. I'd call it a funny story about death, and leave it at that.

  Christopher Moore

  Jobs, Dirty, Woven

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• There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?

  Lisa Belkin

  Children, Pain, Grieving

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• I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy.'

  Charlize Theron

  Crazy, Thinking, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Away From Each Other

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction, Fantasy, Stuck

  Roosevelt Intermediate School, Westfield, NJ #3 Interview, lists.topica.com. March 23, 2005.

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• My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.

  Judd Apatow

  Brother, Grandfather, Albums

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• When people lose their jobs, they can either get another job or be entrepreneurs. In the music industry, a lot of people have attempted the latter by starting their own labels, but in the age of digital downloads, it's very difficult to succeed.

  Judd Apatow

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. December 11, 2012.

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• When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.

  Missy Elliot

  Artist, Order, Records

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

  Riff Raff

  Rapper, Actors, Want

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2012.

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• Buying a matching blouse and skirt from the same store is a crime. A clever mix of chic and cheap hits the jackpot. Know how to mix styles and labels.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Clever, Style, Buying

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• Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people. My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do [x]?", "Do you plan to add [y]?". Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don't want a thousand features. That would be ugly. Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It's about saying NO to all but the most crucial features.

  Derek Sivers

  Jobs, Independent, Hands

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• In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Careers, Directors, Film

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• Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, the McKinsey Quarterly journal described him as the 'the one guru to whom other gurus kowtow' and Robert Heller described him as 'the greatest man in the history of management', praise indeed for a man who described himself as 'just an old journalist'.

  Peter Drucker

  Men, World, Praise

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• I would rather label the whole enterprise of setting a biological value upon groups for what it is: irrelevant, intellectually unsound, and highly injurious.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Groups, Enterprise, Settings

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Names, Add, Vegetarian

  PETA's Millennium Concert, 1999.

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• Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.

  Timothy Leary

  Mean, Reality, Names

  "The Intelligence Agents". Book by Timothy Leary, 1979.

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• [The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Why I Am Not a Christian”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

  Karel Capek

  Thinking, Becoming, Anarchist

  Karel Capek's statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted in Ivan Klima "Karel Capek: Life and Work", 2002.

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• The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.

  Upton Sinclair

  Running, Lying, Epic

  Upton Sinclair “The Jungle”, Lulu.com

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• A label is a mask life wears. We put labels on life all the time. 'Right,' 'wrong,' 'success,' 'failure,' . . . Labeling sets up an expectation of life that is often so compelling we can no longer see things as they really are. This expectation often gives us a false sense of familiarity toward something that is really new and unprecedented. We are in relationship with our expectations and not with life itself.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Giving, Expectations, Mask

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.66, Penguin

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• People label you the way they know you best.

  Lauren Conrad

  People, Way, Knows

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