Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone. – Jo Brand
I’ve worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I’m a team player. – Jeff Bridges
No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they’re amazingly well informed. – James Woods
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. – Jose Ortega y Gasset
The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me. – Joyce Meyer
Focusing on that one review you feel is unfair misses the value, which is the whole symphony of opinions you get on your page. – Jeremy Stoppelman
All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or Billy would flog Bob. – Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially. – Anupam Kher
I’ve had strong opinions probably since I was born. It makes you unpopular, but what can you do? – James D. Watson
Despite the occasional high decibel level, ‘The Group’ is not a shout fest. I don’t simply want panelists with opposing opinions trying to out-shout one another. – John McLaughlin
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. – James Madison
But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions. – Clarence Thomas
I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid. – Anne Carson
Actors are an insecure breed. It’s hard to have your career depend upon other people’s opinions of what you do. – Alyssa Milano
There’s a longstanding tradition that journalists don’t cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work. – Bill Dedman
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. – Caleb Cushing
Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. – Archibald MacLeish
If you listen to everybody’s opinions, I mean, I always say I’d be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to. – Brian Setzer
I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, ‘I better reexamine my position!’ I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there’s nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws. – Antonin Scalia
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. – Clarence Darrow
I have been fortunate that publications like the ‘New York Times’ and ‘The Wall Street Journal’ have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience. – Campbell Brown
I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. – A. C. Benson
The editorial page is where you’ll find our opinions, while the letters columns and the space for Op-Ed contributors are a forum for debate and discussion. – Andrew Rosenthal