#label

I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional. ↗

— Kathy Najimy

#dysfunctional #family #i #labeled #learned

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#black #box #choosing #intellectual #label

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if it were to do well. I just try to do a good job with it. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#character #good #good job #hurt #i

That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts. ↗

— Ricky Skaggs

#great music #hearts #kind #label #mission

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#designer #down-to-earth #earth #fashion #funny

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught. ↗

— Erin Gruwell

#labels #perspective #pride #race #freedom

You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing Blade' and be done with it. Fire indeed. Humph. Wouldn't you rather have a sword called Sheepbiter or Chrysanthemum Cleaver or something else with imagination? ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#names #imagination

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#contrary #dismiss #easy #everything #gossip

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards. ↗

— Nick Webb

#judgment #labels #nick-webb #personality #wish-you-were-here

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#names #war #president