Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don’t really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
No one will expect the British Government or the Government of India to give way to threats of violence, disorder and chaos; and, indeed, representatives of large sections of Indian opinion have expressly warned us that we must not do so.
Building a bridge, in my opinion, is a symbolic gesture, linked with the needs of people who cross over it, and with the idea of overcoming or surmounting obstacles. A modern bridge can also be a work of art. It helps to shape our daily lives and becomes a vital experience for all the people who use it.
The strength of the scientific establishment in any country is related to its general level of education, not only in supplying large numbers of eager minds for further training, but also in ensuring a public opinion that holds science in esteem and approves financial support.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or to the audience. I want to ask their opinion on my point of view and discuss it with them.
I think that girls are always expected to have opinions about each other, and maybe I don’t have an opinion about some things, you know?
The basis of the free market is anytime you can generate revenue or profit, you’ve created value in excess of the resources you consume in a society. That’s probably the most unbiased utility function there is, as opposed to someone’s opinion.
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we’re in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life – and if Virtue is not its own reward I don’t know any other stipend annexed to it.
I haven’t much opinion of words. They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
The car industry has invested a lot in hybrid, but my opinion is electric cars will take over a lot of hybrids quicker than people think now.
Yes, 85 percent of the art you see isn’t any good. But everyone has a different opinion about which 85 percent is bad. That in turn creates fantastically unstable interplay and argument.
Everyone is entitled to our opinion.
It’s not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it’s votes in ballot boxes.
My opinion on who’s wrong or who’s right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.
There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there’s eight funny guys and two women who don’t have any opinion or humour.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
His tenacity is unmatched in my opinion. Incredible how someone could have suffered that long and come back out of prison with such a good heart and positive things to say and do.
In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.
Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.
I have long argued that no one should be allowed to write opinion without spending years as a reporter – nothing like interviewing all four eyewitnesses to an automobile accident and then trying to write an accurate account of what happened.
The best part about being in the ‘showbiz’ industry is that you can voice your opinion.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.
I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words.
Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can’t live your life based on other people’s opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you’re not living.
That’s what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
I was never very good at school with… humanities… anything which was more a matter of opinion.
Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I’m in a good mood, but I don’t really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states’ rights is gone. There’s no support for it in the Supreme Court and there’s no support for it in public opinion.
My opinion is that protesting, there’s no problem with it, as long as it is peaceful without violence, without vandalism.
I had to realize that other people had an opinion that counted, and I had to realize that other people had feelings, and you’ve got to watch their feelings and listen to what they have to say.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
You have to show you have ambition as a team, as a group of players; show you want to win. Otherwise, in my opinion, you can’t win a tournament.
Since everyone has a mouth, everyone will have an opinion.
I’ve read a lot of different versions of myself – and all of them are true because it’s all opinion, and they’re as accurate as it can ever be. But I don’t think that I’ve been deft at hiding parts of my personality.
The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.
When you’re given a newspaper column, you’re not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say ‘On the one hand this’ and ‘On the other hand that.’ You’re getting paid for your opinion.
Interdependence is a fact, it’s not an opinion.
It’s amazing how everyone has an opinion on how you should live your life.
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
There’s so many more better TV shows than films coming out, in my opinion.
I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that’s important.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
What is our destiny? Does it matter? Is it bound up with ‘our’ planet? In my opinion, yes.
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not… with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Thom Browne is, in my opinion, one of the great minds in men’s wear.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
So I think it’s – what was important to me is that I found that I can’t change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don’t think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.
