#views

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#conflicts #criticism #decision #dictatorship #earlier

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amount #cases #court #courts #discretion

Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#essays #exception #i #interesting #me

For me to be pompous is the most horrible thing in the world. It's like putting a wall around you. It screws you up. You'd better be willing to change your views or adapt and be modern. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#around #better #change #horrible #like

I did, but I'm not real fond of giving interviews. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#fond #giving #i #interviews #real

Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#before #case #come #everybody #everyone

We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them. ↗

— John Redwood

#affect #always #been #daily #daily lives

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#animal house #devastating #got #house #reviews

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#continue #different #four #i #listen

Due to the fact that I experienced personally the situation of a political prisoner, I have an historical commitment to all those that were or are prisoners just because they expressed their views, their public opinion, their own opinions. ↗

— Dilma Rousseff

#commitment #due #experienced #expressed #fact