Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn’t consider himself part of a tradition.
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I’ve actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles.
This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We’re all allowed to have our opinions.
I got criticized at Ohio State, and my boss took up for me. I got criticized at Iowa State at times, and my boss took up for me.
Technologists provide tools that can improve people’s lives. But I want to be clear that I don’t think technology by itself improves people’s lives, since often I’m criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there’s commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it’s for naught.
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
All I can say is that WWE and its entire machinery has been nothing but a joy to work with. I’m not just saying that because I’m paid to or that I’m a member of the company. I have criticized WWE in the past, but I am still a big fan of the product.
People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It’s as though you’ve said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.
I always am astounded at how willing Steve was to share all about himself. And sometimes he got criticized for it. But he was so open and yet so private about some things.
It’s a lot more fun being a critic than being the one criticized.
As much as the Congress is criticized – and a lot of it is well deserved – the fact is there are many quiet victories if you keep your head down and know how to maneuver in the process and get things done.
I am a patriot. I would think there are no politicians who are not patriots. Since I am a politician, I often get criticized as I try to exercise what I believe to be right. However, if you mind such criticism, I think you can’t protect people’s lives.
I think my legacy will be in what most people don’t like about me: my style – the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I’m criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.
People’s sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.
There’s a passion about this because people take it very close to their hearts and they have grown up with James Bond – and so have I. But I was being criticized before I had presented anything, so it was name calling.
A lot of drivers don’t put that stuff on social media because they’re scared they might get criticized or whatever, and there will be people who say I can’t drive. I just don’t let it get to me and do my own thing.
Booker Washington was branded an accommodationist by many of the people who criticized him.
I worked for George Bush. I’m proud to have worked for him. I think that a lot of the most controversial things we did, that people didn’t like and – and criticized us for, things like the terror surveillance program or the enhanced interrogation techniques, were things that allowed us to save lives.
What the nation’s built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can’t discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.
In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in a dream has the opposite effect. That dream could become the source for a story.
It is not like I want all my films to run for more than 100 days. But I can’t stand it when my movie is criticized.
Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.
The Museum of the Bible, the sprawling, 430,000-square-foot tribute to the good book, has been dogged by controversies long before opening day. It’s been criticized for not including enough Jesus, for excluding various religious traditions, and for being evangelical propaganda.
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
I’ve really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a ‘Bump & Grind,’ then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I’m glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I’m a sloppy filmmaker.
You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
We used to take it really hard when people criticized us about what we were wearing, but not anymore.
People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I’d say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.
I didn’t want to put out ‘The Unseen’ because I thought I would be criticized. I thought everyone would think the sped-up vocals were a gimmick. I had to be convinced to put it out.
Moderates want their faith respected. They don’t want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this – this lunacy.
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
As a singer, I’ve been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don’t belong in any category, male or female, pop or jazz. But early on, I saw my suffering as my salvation.
I used to get criticized for doing a ‘Bump & Grind’ then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I’m glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
Many have criticized a federal carbon tax, saying that it would increase energy costs. Some continue to oppose it even when that revenue would be used to reduce other taxes in what’s known as a tax swap.
Nobody has been criticized as much as I have.
My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
I was criticized by some people for my first album because they said I was taking sacred music. They knew nothing about what I was doing. That was no sacred music; that’s music I wrote.
I’m criticized by the feminists, by the Jewish establishment, by Canadian nationalists. And why not? I’ve had my pot shots at them. I’m fair game.
Mark Fox is always criticized recruiting: he can’t keep the Georgia kids home. What that means – he’s not cheating and paying. That’s what it means.
Eventually, the truth comes out in sport and in life. When you win, you’re praised, and when you lose, you’re criticized. That’s normal.
I really don’t care to be criticized. I stay in my lane and do me.
Being too thin. Being bigger. I’ve been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.
We talk about equality, women’s empowerment… yet we are now being trolled for wearing jeans. I haven’t heard of male MPs being criticized for their clothes but when a woman MP wears jeans, that bothers an entire nation.
I am not afraid if the criticism concerns what I do wrong, because then I know. Because if you say the King cannot be criticized, it means that the King is not human.
After I was elected as an MP, there were many who used to criticize me, but I still stood. This I have learnt from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is used to being criticized severally from his days in Gujarat.
As a Democrat, it’s easy for me to talk about immigration. For my Republican friends, they could get criticized from the Right in their party.
I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about it. And I stepped back and thought ‘Why are you bitter? You can’t just stand there like every other indie musician and criticize this so-called ‘generic’ music when you’re not doing anything to challenge that.’
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.
Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.
Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war.
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