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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. -- Booth Tarkington
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Everyone takes pictures, so you need to have your own opinion. -- Rene Burri
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. -- Ambrose Bierce
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. -- Samuel Butler
Everybody has their own opinion and own ideas of what beauty is. -- Rick Genest
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. -- William Hazlitt
I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary. -- Robert MacNeil
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. -- Marcel Pagnol
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, which people don't seem to be shy about expressing. -- Jamie Moyer
People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that. -- Deborah Cox
The luxury of one's own opinion. -- Otto von Bismarck
Everybody's entitled to their own opinion. -- Cam Newton
Always have your own opinion and belief. -- Kim Jong-hyun
Everyone has the right to their own opinion. -- Usain Bolt
Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion. -- Evander Holyfield
I always have my own opinion before my boss says his. -- Gerry Geek
You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts. -- Talib Kweli
I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them. -- Shania Twain
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still. -- Samuel Butler
The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself. -- Rajneesh
You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion. -- William Hazlitt
How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion! -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion. -- Norm MacDonald
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct. -- John Fiske
Your own opinion of your state is not worth much. Ask the Lord to search you. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell. -- Daymond John
Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'. -- Wayne Dyer
Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts. -- Hamza Yusuf
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected. -- Josh Billings
For I am not so enamoured of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate. -- Keith Rabois
I like disagreement because it forces both sides to question their own opinions and why they feel that way. -- Sam Hunt
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion. -- Anne Frank
My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. -- Margaret Oliphant
Most of us believe everyone has a right to his own opinion - as long as it agrees with ours. -- Andy Rooney
I think putting your relationship out there for people to interpret and have their own opinion about, I think it's crazy. -- Travis Barker
You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else. -- Michael Ondaatje
My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect. -- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions. -- Roksanda Ilincic
When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on [gay] marriage, that's when it's time to resist. -- Rand Paul
Success is always somebody else's opinion of you; but it doesn't amount to a damn compared to your own opinion of yourself. -- Jack Lemmon
Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections. -- Thomas a Kempis
Let us always remember that he does not really believe his own opinion, who dares not give free scope to his opponent. -- Wendell Phillips
Given that everyone is giving you their own opinion about him, I think the only opinion you should listen to is yours. -- Taylor Swift
A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about. -- Andy Rooney
People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it. -- Aaron Carter
I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush. -- Ellen DeGeneres
I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. -- Nelson Mandela
As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion. -- Janeane Garofalo
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on. -- Paul McCartney
Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you wisdom unless you first empty your cup~? -- Nyogen Senzaki
The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds. -- Frederick William Robertson
... I bid farewell to my readers in the hope that they have formed their own opinion as to the meaning of the word "combination". -- Raymond Keene
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel. -- David Hume
Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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
It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience. -- John Adams
I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. -- Emily Browning
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. -- Thomas More
The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion. -- Byron Katie
Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions. -- George Carlin
The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion. -- Rajneesh
Be happy with who you are and respect not only others but your own opinions and beliefs as well, that way we can all live along peacefully. -- Isabella Poretsis
People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion. -- Tori Amos
If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion. -- Epictetus
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion. -- Thomas Jefferson
People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot. -- Thomas Sowell
I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. -- Josh Billings
Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. -- Jane Austen
There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he would not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to pursue his own opinion. -- Norm MacDonald
No mind should submit their mind to another mind He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still -- that's my motto. I won't be brainwashed. -- Muriel Spark
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice. -- Maria Bamford
It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. -- Stephen Colbert
Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn't mean you have to think it today. Don't ever become a prisoner of your own opinion -- Harvey Fierstein
Thank God he wasn't the St. Louis Rams' coach. I have a lot of respect for Coach Dungy and like everyone in America, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. -- Michael Sam
I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me. -- Jane Austen
I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything. -- Gary Coleman
Singing shows are fun. Every viewer has their own opinion. We all know whether we think a voice sounds good or not. There's a play-along element. All these shows can be supported. -- Mark Burnett
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire. -- Kim Basinger
You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire -- Kim Basinger
My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity. -- Doug Stanhope
It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost. -- Lyle Lovett
It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost -- Lyle Lovett
I told him that my own opinion was that the time now and the method now to deal with Russia was to keep our mouths shut and let our actions speak for words. -- Henry L. Stimson
It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. -- Epictetus
No one can control his own opinion or his own belief. My belief was forced upon me by my surroundings. I am the product of all circumstances that have in any way touched me. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Sometimes, when people use too much blue screen in movies, the actors don't look credible, because they have their own opinion of what the thing will look like, and each person has a different opinion. -- Michel Gondry
Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion. -- Tim McGraw
The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. -- William Temple
I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. -- Marcus Aurelius
Every man has a right to his own opinion. Every race has a right to its own action; therefore let no man persuade you against your will, let no other race influence you against your own. -- Marcus Garvey
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. -- David Attenborough
His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul. -- J. M. Coetzee
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value. -- Ann Radcliffe
Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don't pay a lot of attention to the reviews. -- Evan Daugherty
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That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions. -- Stephen Harper
In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered. -- Gillian Anderson
Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions. -- Dilma Rousseff
When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning. -- Anne Bronte
I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. -- Charles Spurgeon
I like the idea that people have formed their own opinions. And of course once people meet me or talk to me their opinion totally changes because I'm much more that girl that you hang out with than you think. -- Willa Ford
We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think. -- Anne Frank
I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character. -- Suzanne Vega
I am a Christian. I believe in God. I believe in Christ. Everybody is entitled to their own religion and their own opinion. I'm not saying I'm perfect and that I don't make mistakes. But I do believe in a higher power. -- Davone Bess
My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass. -- Christopher Hitchens
Think about who you are. Think about how nice you can be to another person. By the same token then, to have your own opinion about life, you as an individual, with respect. But I think that's what the key to success is. -- Tommy Wiseau
I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself. -- Omar Sharif
It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion. -- Murasaki Shikibu
When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally able to make my own opinions about the schoolwork I had to deal with, instead of being instructed under the tutelage of the teacher, was really nice academically. -- Thora Birch
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice. -- William Hazlitt

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