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  • Labels are for cans, not people. -- Anthony Rapp
  • Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people. -- Martina Navratilova
  • Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire. -- Bryan Batt
  • My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am. -- Michael Stipe
  • We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that. -- Geoffrey Holder
  • Labels are for cans, not for people. -- Jared Leto
  • Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm -- Drake
  • Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive. -- Edward Brooke
  • Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other. -- Leo Buscaglia
  • Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins. -- Chirlane McCray
  • Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another. -- Russell Simmons
  • Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled. -- Rex Stout
  • Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you. -- Shannen Doherty
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  • There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans. -- George W. Bush
  • I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video. -- Siouxsie Sioux
  • Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula. -- Lee Konitz
  • Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine. -- John Shirley
  • Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects. -- Michael J Cohen
  • Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and stories by their effects. -- Michael J Cohen
  • Labels want to capture a certain market of kids and blah blah blah, and it's true, I just never think about that stuff. It's all part of a chain that's moving along, but this phase of music has to switch. -- Marnie Stern
  • Labels fund things and have resources for you to use. But just because you sign doesn't mean you sign yourself away so they can then tell you what to do. You need to have a plan yourself before they do. -- Gabrielle Aplin
  • Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication. -- Robert H. Schuller
  • A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion. -- Richard Bach
  • Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. -- Patti Smith
  • If you label me, you negate me? -- Wayne Campbell
  • Once you label me you negate me. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you. -- Poppy Z. Brite
  • Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. -- Phyllis McGinley
  • Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience. -- Walter Jon Williams
  • The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. -- Aneurin Bevan
  • Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
  • I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand. -- Adam Jones
  • I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it. -- Jessica Simpson
  • Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want. -- Nikki Sixx
  • I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me -- Rosanna Arquette
  • I don't like labels, but I do have blue eyes and I'm soulful, so what am I going to do? -- Robin Thicke
  • It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. -- Margaret Mead
  • Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. -- Robert Morgan
  • I'm the renegade of funk. I've made house, techno, rock, funk, reggae... That's why I've been on so many different labels. -- Afrika Bambaataa
  • There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. -- R. D. Laing
  • What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul. -- Billy Graham
  • Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
  • It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together. -- Alexander McQueen
  • Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money. -- Ian MacKaye
  • I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic. -- Lana Del Rey
  • It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression. -- Ornette Coleman
  • I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food. -- Michael Stipe
  • Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. -- Thomas J. Watson
  • One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell. -- John Zorn
  • I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.' -- Taylor Swift
  • People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels. -- Clare Balding
  • My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents. -- Mario Batali
  • We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in. -- Armin van Buuren
  • When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So the allegation of anti-Semitism is actually a cover for an intra-Jewish quarrel. -- Judith Butler
  • Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself. -- Mary J. Blige
  • Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.' -- Bharati Mukherjee
  • I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. -- Jackie Robinson
  • I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. -- Lester Bangs
  • When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry. -- Jenni Rivera
  • The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars. -- James Surowiecki
  • I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby. -- Anne Hathaway
  • Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. -- Julie Walters
  • The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • All identity labels are umbrella terms to some degree, but this term 'bisexual' is not only serviceable, but it is sufficient. And yes, it brings together a bunch of people who are maybe shades different from one another. And maybe that's the beauty of labels: that they force you to be with other people and see the difference. -- Charles M. Blow
  • A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it. -- Taylor Swift
  • Drink wine, not labels. -- Maynard Amerine
  • What labels me, negates me." -- Søren Kierkegaard
  • What labels me, negates me. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • Satan labels you. God names you. -- Gloria Gaither
  • I don't use labels a lot. -- Jack Kemp
  • I don't put labels on myself. -- John Engler
  • All labels are offensive in some way. -- J Mascis
  • What he labels sexual, she labels harassment. -- Ellen Goodman
  • One thing is clear: Ron Paul defies labels. -- Mark McKinnon
  • People are too complicated to have simple labels. -- Philip Pullman
  • The gross evil of our time defies all labels. -- Edward Abbey
  • Break your bad labels instead of living in them. -- Orrin Woodward
  • My customer isn't wrapped up in labels and money. -- Betsey Johnson
  • I don't think labels are as important as results. -- Hillary Clinton
  • I've always ignored the labels people put on things. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels. -- Rob Lowe
  • The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
  • It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes. -- Michael Jordan
  • The only thing major labels can really offer is money. -- Conor Oberst
  • The first act of insight is throw away the labels. -- Eudora Welty
  • Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being. -- Deepak Chopra
  • She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof. -- David Foster Wallace
  • Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names. -- Ming-Dao Deng
  • Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables -- Charles Spurgeon
  • I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels. -- Mark Skousen
  • God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage. -- Craig Groeschel
  • A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing. -- Tyler Perry
  • I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die. -- Moby
  • I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing. -- Aurora Guerrero
  • Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. -- Jonathan Coe
  • Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band. -- Bruce Dickinson
  • the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own. -- David Levithan
  • I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records. -- Mayer Hawthorne
  • Don't put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for. -- Henry Blackaby
  • Whatever labels are being pinned on me have nothing to do with me. -- Skeet Ulrich
  • I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels. -- Aimee Mann
  • A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off. -- Adam Rich
  • I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money. -- Chuck D
  • Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that. -- Dawn Angelique
  • The means of control that record labels had vis-à-vis distribution no longer exist. -- Doug Walters
  • To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Use Campaign link tagging labels all for specifying slight differences in content for split testing. -- Georg Cantor
  • Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels. -- Val Kilmer
  • Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today. -- Jim Lee
  • Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired. -- Frank Schaeffer
  • Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels." -- Val Kilmer
  • "Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion. -- Matthea Harvey
  • My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. -- Anne Sexton
  • We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure. -- Julian Assange
  • I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels. -- Teena Marie
  • A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music. -- Taylor Hanson
  • The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. -- Doris Lessing
  • I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996. -- El-P
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