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It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers]
Stephanie McMahon

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
W B Yeats

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W H Auden

I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.
Greg Norman

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Angela Carter

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding)
John Locke

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
Andre Maurois

We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionist. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.
Michael Crichton

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
Plutarch

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them
Flannery O'Connor

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
Samuel Butler

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Robert G Allen

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts
Finley Dunne

'When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you!'
Anonymous

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.
George Gallup

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

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Alan Brien

Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow men are the most confident of the truth of their own
Sir James Mackintosh

We had a discussion but I didn't ask for his opinion [on Mourinho moaning]
Raymond Domenech

Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force
Blaise Pascal

Central Africans are free to express their opinions without fear of imprisonment.
Francois Bozize

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth
Joseph Joubert

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S Truman

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo Coelho

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm Muggeridge

The world is governed by opinion.
Thomas Hobbes

Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions
Sir James Mackintosh

I'm no bimbo. I'm opinionated and I do have a brain...
Christina Aguilera

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!
Erle Gardner

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Epictetus

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
Voltaire

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf

There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world
Paul Dirac

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
Maggie Gyllenhaal

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Bishop Jeremy Taylor

Of course liberty is not licence. Liberty in my view is conforming to majority opinion.
Hugh Scanlon

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
Frederick Scott Oliver

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
W S Gilbert

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond De Goncourt

Comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.
Matt Lucas

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John Milton

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
Thomas Huxley

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell

Mark has been a big part of my success in the last 10 months and we had a great run together, but we've had a difference of opinion regarding some aspects of my game. [on sacking Mark Petchey as coach]
Andrew Murray



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