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Criticism Quotes
"Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me."
"Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism."
"Aspiring to a souffle, he achieves a pancake at which the reader saws without much appetite."
"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."
"One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it."
"I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism."
"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."
"Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me."
"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes."
"There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful."
"Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within."
"We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations."
"The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon."
"There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism."
"We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects."
"Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism."
"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."
"There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep."
"Silence is sometimes the severest criticism."
"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."
"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language."
"So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism."
"Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive."
"I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions."
"Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice."
"You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters."
"I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films."
"I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species."
"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."
"I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist."
"We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration."
"My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily."
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