When you’re female working in a male-dominated industry, there are unfortunately extra things you need to do – for example, couch opinions in a way that sounds palatable and not threatening. That’s a skill I developed.
Those who know me best know that my opinions don’t change with the wind.
It’s not simply to say, ‘My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,’ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
What I’ve learned over the years… judges are conscientious… not like lawyers, who give opinions.
India is the world’s largest democracy and everyone should have a right to voice their opinions.
I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions.
Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs.
Nothing irritates me more than going to see an artist and paying all this money and then have them rant about very specific political opinions.
I’m a big fan of independent girls who are strong-willed, vocal in their opinions, and have a sense of humor.
Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I’m saying?
It’s a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.
Being the one woman in the room should not be seen as a victory. If there’s only one of us in the room, we’re still a token; we don’t actually have an empowered voice. If there’s two of us, we’re still a minority. If there’s three, then we’re allowed to have a multiplicity of opinions.
When I was a teenager, a mean comment would have hurt me deeply, I’ve made it my mission to be a role model for young girls and boys and help show them that other people’s words or opinions have nothing to do with how beautiful they actually are.
I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.
I didn’t go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.
Like Israel, the U.K. is a democracy, and like Israel, we would never want to muzzle political voices, whatever their opinions – and that is especially true for universities.
I don’t know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I – or anyone else – could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.
If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.
If I’m the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.
I’m very conscious of other people’s opinions and of people not liking me.
When you’re making a film, there are so many people involved that you get opinions and notes from people and you don’t even know who they are. I find that quite difficult and it wears you down.
I wouldn’t impress my opinions on anyone.
I definitely have my opinions that I’m very vocal about and I’m not afraid to put them out there.
Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company.
In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.
The best way to avoid falling prey to the opinions of others is to realize that other people’s opinions are just that – opinions. Regardless of how great or terrible they think you are, that’s only their opinion. Your true self-worth comes from within.
You can have your opinions, and you can share them with your friends, but why would you go online to tell a stranger something random about their appearance? I don’t get that.
The train’s always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
So many differing opinions and philosophies… are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
Liberal talk on the radio doesn’t perform well because it is not a sequestered to a niche – it’s everywhere in the media universe. Conservative talk radio, on the other hand, performs well because the radio is the only place, besides Fox News, that people can go for right-sphere opinions.
I learned my lesson early in my career that it’s not helpful to go and look at what other people’s opinions are.
The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction.
The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can’t change them. But I can show them what they’re missing.
The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one’s over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
I have been privileged to work for some of the most high-powered people in town. They pay me for my opinions, and I give those to them.
Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be – unless you have been there.
On ‘Think Like a Man,’ they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.
There is no denying the fact that we live in a patriarchal society, and Bollywood is a patriarchal industry for sure. And it is not too fond of women with opinions.
I am so anti-people’s opinions when I’m making a record, but when it’s finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.
When I was very young, I didn’t talk a lot. If an adult was speaking, I was listening. I think it was the moment I turned 18 when I was like, ‘I’m an adult now and have opinions and things to say, so now it’s time for people to listen to me.’
Michael Savage turns on a microphone and broadcasts his opinions to faithful followers who enjoy listening to his views on politics, social issues, and anything else that this colorful, provocative, entertaining guy comes up with. It doesn’t matter which of his views I agree or disagree with.
Our facts aren’t fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren’t opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn’t information; it’s just hastily assembled symbols.
I’ve been amazed at how fast and herd-like opinions in the United States are.
A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision-making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group.
I talk, watch TV, spout opinions, schmooze, negotiate, talk some more, play games, and have a little cocktail.
I don’t like people who don’t have opinions.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and I feel like everyone judges people: regardless of whether they know someone or not, they have an opinion based on the persona of the person. I guess you can only have a real opinion of who they are as a person once you meet someone.
‘Moral police’ is my new word. I am very against the media doing moral policing, giving opinions on actor’s lives. Media should not become moral police; they should just report.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
I don’t really like to pay attention too much to what is being said about me, only because the people closest to me – my parents, family, and friends – know me best. So I feel like their opinions mean more to me than anyone else’s.
The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists’ personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.
I think teens trust each other’s opinions about products because of the quality of authenticity that they think their friend’s recommendation has.
Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
I’m entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I’m an American.
If you gather a lot of stuff, then you write it, write in scenes with dialogue. Somewhere in the middle, rising from all this research like strong metal towers, is your opinions.
