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“I'm a human being, just like everybody else. I'm up some days and down others. Some days, I just refuse comment. If I'm feeling a little down, I won't say anything. But if I'm really up, I'll let it all hang out. I do have a slight propensity to put my foot in my mouth.”

Ifs Humans Littles Feelings Human Beings Feet Mouths Refuse Hanging Out Comment Say Anything Propensity

Author:Ted Turner

“I find that at almost every press junket I get that comment, "this character's different from what you generally play..." And that's OK! But I think "generally play" stems back to Mr Darcy. I'm fine with it but I tend to find that if it's a departure, which in other people's words it always is, it's always a departure from that.”

People Ifs Thinking Different Play Character Fine Presses Comment Stem Departure Darcy

Author:Colin Firth

“We started out on the Internet, so I've been reading what people had to say about stuff since we were getting mean comments on iFilm, before we even had our site going. People are really, really rough on the web - that's their right, that's the whole point of it - but sometimes it can be a little bit brutal.”

People Mean Littles Sometimes Whole Reading Stuff Bits Internet Little Bit Rough Comment Brutal Site

Author:Andy Samberg

“I think the Bible is hugely patriarchal. There are so many sexist comments and homophobic comments and comments that are not in keeping with nurturing and loving the human spirit.”

Thinking Humans Spirit Comment Human Spirit Nurturing Sexist Homophobic

Author:Alanis Morissette

“I think that sometimes people don't think before they speak. And even a small comment can make or break someone's day.”

People Thinking Sometimes Speak Break Comment Make Or Break

Author:Lexi Ainsworth

“The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.”

Thinking Should Information Strange Internet Healthy Encounters Comment Tickets Outlaw Manic Profanity Bummer

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“If the bear were to make a racial comment, it would be more likely to get a laugh than if a person on stage were to make a racial comment.”

Ifs Persons Would Be Laughing Stage Bears Comment

Author:Mila Kunis

“I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.”

Stills Today Attitude Particular Materials Photography Comment Do The Best Present Day

Author:William Eggleston

“It's always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it's happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.”

Real Past Social Taste Happenings Tragedy Comment Censorship Blast Bad Taste Something Real

Author:Margaret Cho

“Often something that is in bad taste or considered to be in bad taste is something that's just very true but that people are unwilling to discuss or comment on.”

People Taste Comment Unwilling Bad Taste Very True

Author:Margaret Cho

“Obviously, when I came to do the movie I knew that I was going to have to take my clothes off so I might have worked a little bit harder to keep myself fit. But I think that's the irony of it - you see all these fit and healthy people, and I'm not making any comments on it, but everybody deep down is a f**k up somewhere.”

People Thinking Littles Might Bits Fit Healthy Little Bit Clothes Harder Irony Comment Deep Down

Author:Daniel Craig

“The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.”

Book Loses Too Much Position Serious Lucky Comment

Author:Bent Larsen

“Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A universe with a creative superintendent would be a very different kind of universe from one without. Why is that not a scientific matter?”

Kind Art Different Matter Would Be Universe Creative Scientist Length Comment Different Kinds Positively Bending Superintendents Bending Over

Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.”

Needs Feels Steps Figures Fellows Appearance Comic Uncertainty Shops Deceit Comment Traveler Monument Tourists Avarice Every Step Antiquity Scruples Forgery

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“When a person reports a feeling, it's a comment on our relationship.”

Persons Feelings Reports Comment Our Relationship

Author:Stephen Gilligan

“I don't mind comments saying things about me. I do mind them saying things about those young, brave men and women who have volunteered. That's offensive to me that people would say those kind of comments about Americans who have volunteered to take the fight to the enemy.”

People Men Mind Kind Young Fighting Enemy Men And Women Brave Comment Offensive Brave Man

Author:George W. Bush

“If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?"”

Ifs Thinking Should Writing Involved Appreciate Actresses Reviews Comment Respectful Reviewers

Author:Romola Garai

“When I first started making films 30 years ago, people would comment that I was a woman. But strangely, when I was in television, no one ever mentioned that I was a woman. Maybe it was because television and film were different. There were more women working in television than men. There was no split in terms of work - everyone was considered equal”

People Men Different Film Term Equal Comment

Author:Ann Hui

“Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.”

Comment Obsolete

Book:JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

Source: JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

“I'm trying mostly to ask questions. And not just trying to stake out a position on something, but also trying to define the stuff we agree on. I'm having battles with comment posters trying to insert a little sense of order so it's not just a long pissing match between the edges, which is what I think a lot of the blogosphere is tending to do.”

Thinking Trying Littles Long Order Asks Stuff Position Battle Agree Edges Comment Stakes Posters Insert

Author:Andrew Revkin

“Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.”

Needs Should Comment Rhetoric Razors

Author:Alexander Stubb

“One of the problems I have always discussed is the refusal to distinguish between comment and fact. The newspaper wraps every fact into a comment. It is impossible to give mere fact without establishing point of view.”

Giving Facts Problem Views Impossible Mere Point Of View Newspapers Comment Wraps Refusal

Author:Umberto Eco

“The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills. Comments display our universal failure to teach and value critical thinking, leaving the possibility open that both everything and nothing could be true.”

Thinking Values Teach Possibility Skills Universal Fundamentals Leaving Critical Being True Comment Display Critical Thinking

Author:Travis Nichols

“When it comes to Jewish sensitivity, I don't find the proposition compelling that non-Jews have no right to comment. We all have the right to comment about each other. And I object when people say that these comments are motivated by anti-Semitism.”

People Objects Jew Motivated Comment Compelling Sensitivity Propositions Anti Semitism

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The mere fact that my comments have caused such strong protests, although I'm not a European, and also the fact that I have been compared with certain persons in German history indicates how charged with conflict the atmosphere for research is in your country. Here in Iran you needn't worry.”

Persons Has Beens Country Facts Certain Strong Worry Conflict Research Mere Atmosphere Protest Iran Comment German History

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.”

People Feet Daily Life Comment

Author:Toks Olagundoye

“Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue can also convey a sense of place. Even so, I insist, the traveler invents the place. Feeling compelled to comment on my travel books, people say to me, "I went there"---China, India, the Pacific, Albania-- "and it wasn't like that." I say, "Because I am not you.”

People Needs Writing Book Feelings Strong India China Dialogue Description Comment Traveler Compelled Pacific Travel Writing Sense Of Place Albania Travel Books

Book:The Best American Travel Writing 2001

Source: The Best American Travel Writing 2001

“I did the Justice League thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You cant do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.”

Way Justice Too Much Internet Devil League Boards Comment Cant Wrong Way Justice League

Author:D. J. Cotrona

“When we as a society lose the ability to comment on what we see and to have an opinion on what we are exposed to, then we have all lost what makes us unique on this planet.”

Lost Loses Ability Opinion Planets Unique Comment Exposed

Author:Damian Loeb

“The only thing that really bugs me about television's coverage is those damn women they have down on the sidelines who don't know what the hell they're talking about. I mean, I'm not a sexist person, but a woman has no business being down there trying to make some comment about a football game.”

Trying Mean Persons Games Football Comment Sexist Football Game

Author:Andy Rooney

“Comments are proof most people don't read the articles.”

People Proof Comment Articles

Author:Jeffrey Zeldman

“For the individual, as I can testify, a brief grounding in semantics, besides making philosophy unreadable, makes unreadable most political speeches, classical economic theory, after-dinner oratory, diplomatic notes, newspaper editorials, treatises on pedagogics and education, expert financial comment, dissertations on money and credit, accounts of debates, and Great Thoughts from Great Thinkers in general. You would be surprised at the amount of time this saves.”

Source: Tyranny of Words

“It's funny to hear how much certain people resist the lip ring. Sometimes I'll do a piece on an important topic and all the YouTube comments will be about the lip ring. I don't really have a good answer for why I got the lip ring. I just wanted it! But I've had it for a million years. I got my lip pierced when I was like 15.”

People Years Important Sometimes Wanted Certain Answers Millions Pieces Lips Rings Comment Topics Youtube

Author:Cara Santa Maria

“Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.”

Giving Persons Stupid Weapons Painful Racist Comment Just Being Better Than You Being Stupid

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn't going to change who I was.”

Needs Kind Order Born Fiction Fit Standards And Love Science Fiction Raised I Realized California Vegetarian Comment Bothered Science Love

Author:Aisha Tyler

“While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.”

People Writing Believe Art Today Courses I Believe Phenomenon Comment Qualified Timelessness

Author:Michael Hersch

“I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.”

May Sound Be Good Drawing Comment

Author:Banksy

“After Donald Trump's derogatory comments about immigrants, NBC has officially cancelled Celebrity Apprentice. Think about it: Donald Trump isn't even president yet, and he's already made America a better place!”

Thinking Made America President Trump Immigrants Comment Better Place Apprentice Nbc Derogatory

Author:Conan O'Brien

“I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Realizing My Own Dad My Dad Comment

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.”

Knows Feels Book Would Be Heaven Taste Kingdoms Sensations Comment Entering Jane Kingdom Of Heaven Austen

Book:Everyone's Mark Twain

Source: Everyone's Mark Twain

“I was having a conversation with one of my teammates and she asked me, "Aren't you so glad it's over? We don't have to compete anymore." I thought that was a strange comment but in that moment I realized that I was doing it for the right reasons. I wasn't looking at the Olympics to define me. I wasn't to arrive somewhere by performing well in a contest.”

Wells Reason Moments Strange Conversation I Realized Glad Performing That Moment Comment Olympics Contests Teammate Performing Well

Author:Kelly Clark

“The Labor roots are very strong.Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.”

Years Made Strong Situation Poverty Years Ago Labor Roots Comment Very Strong

Author:Warren Mundine

“My parents always have taught me 'you're good enough'. So, whenever I got bad comments from the judges, or I'd get on the Internet and read what bloggers have written about me, I would get so down, and I would get so sad. The biggest support group was obviously my parents, and I'd call them. And they'd build me up.”

Enough Parent Support Written Groups Taught Judging Internet Down And Good Enough Comment So Sad Bloggers Support Groups

Author:Carmen Rasmusen

“But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality.”

Ifs Men Want Real Quality Talking Land Serious Real Life Comment Heroic Never Never Land

Book:On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature.”

Thinking Wells Would Be Literature Responsibility Particular Duty Offers Awards Makers Comment Scholarly

Book:William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

Source: William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck

“I get the fantasy league comment a couple of times a series ... that's pretty cool. They might be rooting for the other team, but if I do well it helps them out. It's kind of cool.”

Ifs Wells Kind Helping Might Fantasy Team Couple Series League Comment

Author:Garrett Atkins

“Whether it's your own material or somebody else's material, it's essential that you identify with it thoroughly. It's like you want to archive it; you want to freeze it in time in terms of your perspective on it, then move on, because folk music is that volatile and comments not only on overall human concerns but also on the specifics.”

Want Humans Moving Term Materials Like You Perspective Essentials Music Is Concern Folks Comment Freeze Folk Music Archives Specifics

Author:Paul Stookey

“Successful brands get into the mind slowly. A blurb in a magazine. A mention in a newspaper. A comment from a friend. A display in a retail store. After a slow buildup, people become convinced that they have known about the brand forever.”

People Mind Known Forever Successful Convinced Stores Newspapers Magazines Brands Comment Display Retail

Author:Al Ries

“Through EdgeRank, Facebook weighs likes, comments, and shares, but it currently does not give greater weight to click-throughs or any other action that leads to sales.”

Giving Doe Action Greater Share Weight Likes Comment Clicks

Author:Gary Vaynerchuk

“When someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, "This is who you are. You're okay in this lady, and you're a great, healthy, lovable and loving person." I try to accept myself.”

Trying Persons Hard Accepting Fronts Hard Work Healthy Okay Weight Mirrors Who You Are Comment Lovable Loving Person

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

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