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• Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.

  Tim Heidecker

  Book, Eric, Gazing

  "Tim and Eric Are Bringing Down Scientology With Jokes". Interview with Jill Krasny, www.esquire.com. July 8, 2015.

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• A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

  Kingsley Amis

  Wine, Too Short, Life's Too Short

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• The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Names, Woods, Sacred

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.69, Penguin

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• Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Crush, Important, Want

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• Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

  Tom Bergeron

  Success, Failure, Humor

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• The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

  Paula Fox

  Effort, Paper, Language

  Paula Fox (2011). “News from the World: Stories and Essays”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people.

  Paula Fox

  War, Reality, Thinking

  Paula Fox (2011). “News from the World: Stories and Essays”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sex, Mean, Data

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• I’m proud of the work that I’ve done. I don’t care what people label me as.

  Leighton Meester

  People, Done, Care

  FaceBook post by Leighton Meester from May 25, 2012

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• I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

  Michael Gira

  Betrayal, Careers, Musical

  Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.

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• There is no late-night comedy. You watch comedy, you watch whenever you want to tune on. You can it in the middle of the night. You can it in the morning. It's all comedy. They just label it late-night comedy so they don't have to pay as much.

  George Schlatter

  Morning, Night, Tunes

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Meditation, Hopeless, Break

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I'm a big Urban Outfitters girl, and Forever 21 - I don't think labels make fashion. I think it's your own style, what you put together.

  Chelsea Kane

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.

  Jo Coudert

  Circles, People, Trying

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.109, iUniverse

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• Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Feelings, Demand, Language

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• how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

  Muriel Lester

  Self, Names, People

  Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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• Labels are for cans, not for people.

  Jared Leto

  People

  "The Gazette talks to Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto about their new film Dallas Buyers Club". Interview with Joanne Mace, www.basingstokegazette.co.uk. February 6, 2014.

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• There are sexual things that I do that aren’t for a man. I feel empowered sometimes by being sexy and being comfortable enough to be sexy on camera — a lot of woman [sic] struggle with that. But, there are some days that I don’t want anyone to see me. I’m just a regular girl. Some days, I’m super-strong; some days, I’m super-insecure. But, I don’t really identify with any particular label. I just speak my truth, and if people like it, they like it, and if they bash it, they bash it.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Sexy, Strong

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• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  Adam Pally

  Thinking, Tv Shows, Ipads

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

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• When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one.

  Catherine Tate

  Personality, Red, Would Be

  "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I have never gotten into the label thing.

  Diana Ross

  "What is an icon?". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2005.

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• It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Real, School

  "College Dropout Kanye Tells High School Students Not To Follow In His Footsteps" by Corey Moss, www.mtv.com. December 5, 2005.

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• I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

  Ester Dean

  Girl, Fighting, Records

  "Hitmaker Ester Dean on Songwriting, Fighting and Eating Hot Dogs (Q&A)". Interview with Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win!

  Ashanti

  Team, Passion, Winning

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• The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Scare

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