#critic

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

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Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world. ↗

— Ashley Judd

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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. ↗

— Pauline Kael

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Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗

— John Keats

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I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. ↗

— Johannes Kepler

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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District. ↗

— Bob Ney

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I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

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I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

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