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"I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said."
"Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty."
"Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names."
"I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know."
"The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence."
"I've always been something these labels can't buy, especially if they tryna take a piece of my soul."
"To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label."
"Every actor has a production company already. It's just a matter of producing your own films under the label of your own production company."
"I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk."
"I have never gotten into the label thing."
"The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled."
"My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees."
"I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South."
"What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else."
"They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me."
"Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears."
"When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego."
"If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!"
"My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that."
"Although he reputedly hated the label of 'guru', Peter Drucker was, by any standards, the greatest management guru the world has yet seen. In 1996, the McKinsey Quarterly journal described him as the 'the one guru to whom other gurus kowtow' and Robert Heller described him as 'the greatest man in the history of management', praise indeed for a man who described himself as 'just an old journalist'."
