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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business, and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business, that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Europe has a press that stresses opinions; America a press, radio, and television that emphasize news.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

I am not involved in any 'issues' because it's too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.