"Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it."

-- Neil Postman

#Mistake Quotes #Believe Quotes #Political Quotes

“I was so happy to be out of there. â€œBarabas, if you werenâ€™t batting for the other team, Iâ€™d marry you.â€ He grinned. â€œIf I werenâ€™t batting for the other team, I would accept your proposal. You had me at â€˜No comment.â€™ If all my clients were this smart, my life would be much easier. Much, much easier.”
“I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.”
“The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”
“The best writing advice I had was [in] â€˜Heinleinâ€™s Rules for Writersâ€™ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, â€˜You must finish what you write,â€™ and that had a big impact on me.”
“It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.”

Source : Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”
“Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?”

Source : Chelsea Handler (2012). “Are you there Vodka? It's me, Chelsea”, p.239, Random House
“I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“True or true? Yes or yes?”

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