"Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise."
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"Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again."
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"Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks."
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"Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable."
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"Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation."
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"You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything"
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"In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies"
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"The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made."
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"I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions."
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"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."
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"Mysticism is in fact the only criticism people cannot level against my theory."
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"Blame is safer than praise"
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"If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction."
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"Criticism is the essence of creation."
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"He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself."
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"Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch."
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"Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism."
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"The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all."
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"criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment."
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"The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned."
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