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A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Bertrand Russell

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

Noam Chomsky

I have always hated bowling, and I don’t mind admitting it.

Hunter S. Thompson

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

Hunter S. Thompson

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

Billy Graham

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson

I don’t like the intellectual label.

Noam Chomsky

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Pope Francis

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

Greta Thunberg

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Nipsey Hussle

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Hunter S. Thompson

Facts are not interesting to me.

Ray Bradbury

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

Noam Chomsky

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

Noam Chomsky

I don’t pay a lot of attention to polls.

Noam Chomsky

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

Ray Bradbury

I don’t do research. I never have.

Ray Bradbury

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

George W. Bush

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

Bill Gates

I told y’all I didn’t vote, right? But if I would’ve voted, I would’ve voted for Trump.

Kanye West

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

Dan Quayle

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

Mr. T

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

H. L. Mencken

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.

Jordan Peterson

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

Billy Graham

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

Frank Ocean

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Thomas Jefferson

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

George Bernard Shaw

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Benjamin Disraeli

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

Anthony Bourdain

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Jordan Peterson

I am such a political person.

Madeleine Albright

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Anthony Bourdain

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Dave Grohl

You know why Foo Fighters have been a band for 20 years? Because I’ve never really told anybody what I think of them. The last thing you ever want to do is go to therapy with your band.

Dave Grohl

America is just downright mean.

Michelle Obama

Trump has no sense of shame.

Colin Powell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

The Weeknd

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Anthony Hopkins

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Robert Frost

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Anthony Bourdain

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Taylor Swift

Fashion is merely an opinion. And I’ve got a lot of opinions.

Kanye West

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

Eminem

I don’t like the name, U2, actually.

Bono

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Dale Carnegie

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

Dolly Parton

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Dwayne Johnson

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Anthony Bourdain

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

Sunil Chhetri

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Christopher Hitchens
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