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  • There's backlash about everything I do. -- Lana Del Rey
  • I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing. -- Ian Somerhalder
  • Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries. -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road. -- Ed Helms
  • Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. -- Karl Rove
  • When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support. -- Scotty McCreery
  • Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities. -- Marvin Olasky
  • Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves. -- Jonny Greenwood
  • CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it. -- Rick Baker
  • I didn't care about the backlash. I think the reason it was so severe was because they didn't know anything about me in New Zealand. If I had made jokes about a shark attack in the US, no one would have cared. -- Anthony Jeselnik
  • European children are educated in a narrative of human tolerance every day, and if you want to be sure to prevent a backlash, you should at least think of bringing Muslim children and teenagers into the fold of that narrative of tolerance. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn't really agree with. -- Jesse McCartney
  • Both men and women react negatively when women negotiate on their own behalf. A man can just negotiate: "I have a better offer. That's not enough to make my family's ends meet." No one feels bad about it. But when a woman does that, there's a backlash. -- Sheryl Sandberg
  • I think we all have room to grow. I think every Christian really does need to take up their cross in a lot of areas of life and say, "Man, listen, regardless of what kind of backlash I'm going to get, I need to stand for what I believe in." -- lecrae
  • If an adversary didn't target our power plants but they did target the core routers, the backbones that tie our internet connections together, entire parts of the United States could be cut off. That would have a tremendous impact on us as a society and it would have a policy backlash. -- Edward Snowden
  • All of women's aspirations--whether for education, work, or any form of self-determination--ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children. For this reason, reproductive freedom has always been the most popular item in each of the successive feminist agendas--and the most heavily assaulted target of each backlash. -- Susan Faludi
  • Each generation has a backlash against the generation before. -- Jo Brand
  • I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash. -- Magic Johnson
  • There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes. -- Pink
  • Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash. -- Eli Roth
  • There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. -- Frank Gehry
  • So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash. -- Vince McMahon
  • When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.' -- Warren Farrell
  • When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it. -- Khloe Kardashian
  • Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women. -- Yoko Ono
  • When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard. -- Olivia Wilde
  • People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. -- Erica Jong
  • Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly. -- Moshe Sharett
  • There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists. -- Anita Sarkeesian
  • Hiring foreigners is more expensive and more difficult than hiring locals, because of the visa fees and long lead times for visa processing. And companies face a backlash by anti-immigrant groups for hiring foreigners. So they do it only because they have to. -- Vivek Wadhwa
  • Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history. Part of the problem before the Internet was that we didn't know which books to read. Someone had to tell you. -- Kathleen Hanna
  • There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash. -- Iris Chang
  • When I went into 'Fiddler,' I wondered about the response I'd get - the backlash because I'm openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye. -- Harvey Fierstein
  • Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought was the core of 'Rosemary's Baby,' or the backlash against feminism which I always thought was the core to 'Stepford Wives.' -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on. -- Shirin Ebadi
  • I think the problem is that there has been a kind of backlash against feminism. I think women just didn't really see themselves winning that fight, and I think that probably led to a lot women feeling trapped in a perpetual cycle of disappointment - trying to be feminists and failing to be. -- Romola Garai
  • When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history. -- Carson Daly
  • There is always backlash. Everything gets backlash. -- Joss Whedon
  • You have to be able to swim in backlash. -- Kanye West
  • the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal. -- Susan Faludi
  • I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. -- Kathleen Hanna
  • A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on. -- Collin Peterson
  • guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring. -- Robin Morgan
  • the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness. -- Susan Faludi
  • I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. -- Ken Thompson
  • I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash. -- Eddie Glaude
  • [On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots. -- Nina Jacobson
  • There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them. -- Kellyanne Conway
  • The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power. -- Bob Barr
  • Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter. -- Eli Roth
  • We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash. -- Eric Reid
  • You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up. -- Sara Bareilles
  • Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. -- Jonathan Chait
  • The backlash to [Sarah] Palin`s comments was swift, with veterans and veterans` groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder. -- Chris Hayes
  • I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received. -- Anita Sarkeesian
  • We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement. -- Naomi Wolf
  • When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard, -- Olivia Wilde
  • In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash. -- Candace Kita
  • Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that. -- Cornel West
  • There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood. -- Jennifer Lawrence
  • Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash. -- Warren Farrell
  • Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse. -- Michel Foucault
  • the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems. -- Susan Faludi
  • Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves. -- Jonny Greenwood
  • Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one. -- Gloria Steinem
  • When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After six months, the album was dead in the water. The critics didn't think much of it, either. -- Peter Criss
  • Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind. -- Shane Black
  • I don't like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with -- that's the way I was raised -- but I just can't see what's so wrong about being gay. -- Zac Efron
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