Quotes with label

  • Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ''crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.
  • No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
  • In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
  • I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.
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  • Burning Spear A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Jerry Rubin By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
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  • Barry White Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Thomas J. Watson Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ''crackpot'' than the stigma of conformity.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Martina Navratilova I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled ''the bisexual defector'' in print. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.
    Martina Navratilova
    American Tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Buzz Osborne I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Freeman Dyson If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Bill Dedman In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Brad Feld In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Blake McIver Ewing In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.
    Blake McIver Ewing
    American singer-songwriter, actor and pianist (1985 - )
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  • Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Benedict Wong It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Kurt Cobain It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
    Sounds 10-1990
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • John Ciardi Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • John Irving My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!
    In One Person (2012) 189
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Audre Lorde My experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Salman Rushdie No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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