#critic

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else. ↗

— James Lipton

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

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It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others. ↗

— John Malkovich

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If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die. ↗

— David Mamet

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To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G. ↗

— Herbie Mann

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While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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