“If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.” IfsIdeasAmericaTurnsActorsOpinionNo IdeaAuditions Author:Eddie Redmayne
“I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.” PeopleWorldLongIdeasEndsShowsAmericaArtistChallengesOpinionOne DayLong TimeHappeningsDevilDown AndBlueBlameDareVideoBotherEnd Of The WorldHollowControversialAtrocities Author:Marilyn Manson
“President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .” KnowsMenNeedsShouldWarCountryAmericaOpportunityPresidentEffortOpinionEconomicLike YouConflictShould HaveIntelligentExtraordinaryIraqAdmireBordersFundPresident BushDisagreementIntelligent ManKuwait Author:April Glaspie
“It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which became the most important in America and thereon I decided to print opinions, ignoring facts.” ImportantFactsAmericaInterestingOpinionPagesDecidedOppositesMethodPrintCleaningEditorialsIgnoring Facts Author:Herbert Bayard Swope
“I have always disliked being a man. The whole idea of manhood in America is pitiful, in my opinion. This version of masculinity is a little like having to wear an ill-fitting coat for one's entire life (by contrast, I imagine femininity to be an oppressive sense of nakedness).” MenLittlesIdeasWholeAmericaOpinionImagineIllVersionsContrastCoatsManhoodMasculinityFemininityFittingPitiful Book:Sunrise with Seamonsters Source: Sunrise with Seamonsters
“Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.” IfsKnowsRunningAmericaOpinionNegativeLike MeRegimesUnfortunateRumorHeadlinesWaiter Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“There is no more a 'political middle' than there is a family in America with 2.3 children. People with opinions take sides. Contrary to what you've heard, it's actually more important to stand for something than it is for everybody to 'just get along'.” PeopleChildrenImportantAmericaPoliticalSidesOpinionHeardMiddleContraryStand For Something Author:Ann Coulter
“The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.” PeopleStatesWisdomSeemsGovernmentAmericaPoliticalPoliticsGivenSidesOpinionEconomyEffectsEuropeExpectedContraryLiberalismFirmnessTumult Book:Jefferson: Political Writings Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.” AmericaHateEmotionOpinionHeroLayers Book:The Unfinished Country Source: The Unfinished Country
“We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.” TryingHardPlayAmericaOpinionTeamFansProudEthicsPreparationNflWork EthicSuper BowlPlay Hard Author:Robert Kraft
“Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.” MayAmericaResultsOpinionFashionShapesTenNineCertaintyCrownsVenturePublic OpinionThornsEmbodimentImpositionBonnetsCrown Of Thorns Author:J. G. Holland
“Coming back to America was, for me, much more of a culture shock than going to India. The people in the Indian countryside don't use their intellect like we do, they use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.” PeopleWorldUseBigsAmericaCulturePowerfulOpinionIndiaImpactIntuitionIntellectIndianShockComing BackVery PowerfulCountrysideBig ImpactCulture Shock Author:Steve Jobs
“The United States of America stands for: the ability for people to worship freely, the ability for people to vote and to express their opinion freely is something we hold dear.” PeopleStatesAmericaAbilityUnitedOpinionUnited StatesWorshipVoteDearUnited States Of America Author:George W. Bush
“If I think about most of America, and maybe I'm terribly wrong...but I think most of America would say that they're not in favor of gay marriage. But there is certainly a large cohort, not a majority but a large number of people, who are articulate and vocal and they'd rally behind this. They're making their opinion known.” PeopleIfsThinkingAmericaNumbersBehindsKnownOpinionGayMajorityFavorsVocalGay MarriageLarge Numbers Author:Tim Gunn
“Here is a good bill that's needed in America. If it's unconstitutional, let the U.S. Supreme Court reverse its opinion and get in line with New Hampshire and that will make it constitutional.” IfsAmericaLinesOpinionNeededBillsCourtSupremeReverseSupreme CourtAmerican PoliticsUnconstitutionalHampshireNew Hampshire Author:Meldrim Thomson, Jr.
“When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.” WantBelieveStatesAmericaUnitedOpinionUnited StatesMediaPleaseMassGuidesCorporateCorporate America Author:Gore Vidal
“I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.” WorldArtAmericaOpinionCivilizationDearCorruptionRuinsNew WorldDeclineContagion Author:Michel de Montaigne
“The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.” MenArtDifferentCountryAmericaOpinionGreaterHonestPoliticianArt IsConscienceEnglandDemocraticTechniqueInstanceNervesStrainScandalPublic OpinionHonest ManDisdainKnavesDifferent CountriesVirtuosity Author:George Bernard Shaw
“The religious cant that will send American troops into battle is perhaps the most sickening aspect of this surreal war-to-be. Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist.” WorldWayWantIdeasWarAmericaPoliticalReligiousOpinionEnemyMiddlePolicyParticularArmsBattleAspectIsraelTerroristSuitsMessTroopsLocksEasternCantSurrealSave The WorldAnti SemiticAnti-americanPolitical OpinionsAmerican TroopsNexus Author:John le Carre
“Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.” IfsKnowsHumansHeartDoeCountryWholeUseAmericaPoliticalCertainNationsPartyOpinionClassCitizensRepublicanTasteInstitutionsSincerePeculiarIndispensableHuman HeartMaintenanceImpartFacilitatePolitical Institutions Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority.... If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.” IfsMayAmericaOpinionEventsKingsInstitutionsMajorityDestroyedMaximsMonarchyOmnipotence Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?” IfsWorldGivingFirstsWarHomeAmericaPoorOpinionDemocracyBrokenSafeSpeechIndependentPressesFree SpeechBrutalUniformsAssemblyGangstersOutragedBroken UpFree PressOverbearing Author:Emma Goldman