#critics

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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I wish all consumers were as gullible as advertising's biggest critics. Anyone who believes advertising is that powerful will believe almost anything. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics! ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

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I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend. ↗

— Richard McCabe

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Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

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Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq. ↗

— William Safire

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