"Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated - unfairly so, in my opinion."
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"I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession."
"I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing."
"It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty."
"If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion"
"In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world."
"I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind."
"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."
"My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it."
"Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed."
"I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty."
"No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide."
"The luxury of one's own opinion."
"The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself."
"Remember that all is opinion."
"But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature."
"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."
"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."
"Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive."
"Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it."