Franz Kafka
Writer
"People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'."
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Randy Bachman
Musician, Songwriter
"Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound."
Michael Jordan
Professional Basketball Player
"It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes."
Russell Brand
Comedian, Actor
"The bad-boy label is just an assumption."
Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under."
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"You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!"
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"You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label."
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"What labels me, negates me."
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"We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people."
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"To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being."
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"The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork."
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"Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities."
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"Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes."
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"I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society."
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"In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns."
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"My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly."
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"Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being."
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"For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label."
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"I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows."
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"I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it."
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"I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them."
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"The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real."
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"It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there."
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"For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same system when it was German. I am compelled to think that this is due to the power of labels; these people like whatever is labelled ‘Left’ without examining whether the label has any justification."
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"Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?"
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