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Opinionated Quotes (page 9)

People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read. Rick Barry
Judd Nelson quote: "I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one..."
I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me. Judd Nelson
I think journalists have the right to their opinions but I think their opinions should be based on history and what they see, not what they feel, how long they've been waiting or whether it's raining or it's snowing or whatever. Marc Jacobs
Bruce Jackson quote: "It is not at all clear how much the media influences public..."
It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media. Bruce Jackson
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. Hosea Ballou
The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. Walter Bagehot
Joan Baez quote: "I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why..."
I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it? Joan Baez
Francis Bacon quote: "Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on..."
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance. Francis Bacon
Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things. Jose Maria Aznar
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. David Attenborough
Craig Claiborne quote: "I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write...."
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. Craig Claiborne
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen. Virginia Woolf
I never understood her preoccupation with heredity. Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was. Harper Lee
Our opinions were not honestly come by. We simply found ourselves in contact with a certain current of ideas and plunged into it because it seemed modern and successful. At College, you know, we just started automatically writing the kind of essays that got good marks and saying the kind of things that won applause. When, in our whole lives, did we honestly face, in solitude, the one question on which all turned: whether after all the Supernatural might not in fact occur? When did we put up... C. S. Lewis
To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs. George Orwell

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