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"I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did."
"As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility."
"The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil."
"I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all."
"Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind."
"It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!"
"We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed."
"Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them."
"The polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know."
"It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto."
"The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong."
"Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."
"Opinion is the death of knowledge."
"Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business."
"As our inclinations, so our opinions."
"Quotations are best brought in to confirm some opinion controverted."
"That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken."
"I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point could be disputable; because reason taught us to affirm or deny only where we are certain; and beyond our knowledge we cannot do either."
"When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people."
"Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be."
