Labels Quotes - Page 9

• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dog, Wine, Thinking

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• Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

  Julie Walters

  Retirement, Home, Opportunity

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• You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

  J. C. Watts

  White, People, Black

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• They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.

  Lil Wayne

  Games, Trust Me, Hottest

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• Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

  Joss Whedon

  Sex, Thinking, Opposites

  "Interview: Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon". Interview with Lev Grossman, content.time.com. September 25, 2005.

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• Record labels collude with some of the radio stations, and the radio stations have their play lists, dependent upon what they call the, quote, 'hits.' What's commercially viable gets recycled, endlessly repeated, and as a result of that, the progressive music can't break in.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Play, Records, Radio

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• I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Single, Real, Adventure

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

  C.D. Wright

  Vagrants, Sticks, Poet

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press

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• No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

  Amy Tan

  Reality, Two, Different

  Amy Tan (2003). “The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life”, p.189, Penguin

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• A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a thief or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.

  Gregory Maguire

  Men, Able, Rich

  "Fictional character: The Wizard". "Wicked", Broadway musical, 2003.

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• What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Years, Class

  Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, Basic Books

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• Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!

  Tamora Pierce

  Ships, Wells, Impressed

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.98, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on label. “I guess I'm bipossible,” he had said.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Bisexual, Said, Laughed

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• I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. ... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Believe, Book, Men

  Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra

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• It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

  John Calvin

  Faith, Ignorance, Humility

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• All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.

  Sarah Dessen

  Long, Pages, Way

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.9, Penguin

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• As a lobbyist he had long ago concluded there was no difference in how Democrats and Republicans conducted the business of government. The game stayed the same: It was always about favors and friends, and who controlled the dough. Party labels were merely a way to keep track of the teams; issues were mostly smoke and vaudeville. Nobody believed in anything except hanging on to power, whatever it took.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Team, Party, Government

  Carl Hiaasen (2001). “Sick Puppy”, p.94, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

  Louis L'Amour

  Thinking, People, Age

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.504, Bantam

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• I poke around in the pile, about to settle on some cod chowder, when Peeta holds out a can to me. “Here.” I take it, not knowing what to expect. The label reads LAMB STEW.

  Suzanne Collins

  Knowing, Lambs, Settling

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.293, Scholastic Inc.

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• And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. I knew, deep down, it was more complicated than that, but watching Jason, I was hopeful. He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I had to wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. So I moved myself closer to him, and I'd been there ever since.

  Sarah Dessen

  Long, Hopeful, Comfort

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• I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as soon as “exceptional” begins to mean anything to anyone they’ll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn’t mean anything to anybody. “Exceptional” refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I’ve been exceptional.

  Daniel Keyes

  Mean, Expression, Ideas

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's bullshit. It's so easy to label people, to look at a list of symptoms and say, "This is who you are. This is what you are.

  Elizabeth Scott

  People, Bullshit, Looks

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• We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.

  Anais Nin

  Matter, Speak, Feminine

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• We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him.

  David Levithan

  Stupid, Eye, World Love

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• My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

  John Irving

  Boys, Categories, Get To Know Me

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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