#critic

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself. ↗

— John Candy

#get #i #just #movies #myself

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them. ↗

— Craig Charles

#creepy #critics #had #i #look

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. ↗

— Henry Steele Commager

#authority #criticism #dangerous #equate #find

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#criticize #face #going #me #someone

Mitt Romney, you can criticize him for a lot of things, and that's fair, but he knows how the economy works. ↗

— Mario Diaz-Balart

#economy #fair #him #how #knows

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time. ↗

— Tacita Dean

#literary-criticism #art

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work." (Claiming an Education, 1977) ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#empowerment #feminism #independent-thought #responsibility #self-determination

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency. ↗

— Richard E. Grant

#big #budget #criticism #efficiency #film

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. ↗

— John Berger

#critical #cut #cutting #daily #futures

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#congress #critical #efficient #employment #fairly