Labels Quotes · Page 4

If you label it this, then it can't be that.

— Tom Wolfe

Do what you do don't let the label tell you to do something else.

— Rakim

I Don't Want Labels Landing On Me Like Sticky Notes

— Kourtnee Willams

I think we need to not speak over black women, not assign them labels.

— Jessica Williams

Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes.

— Kirk Franklin

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

— Doris Lessing

“Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.”

— William Shakespeare

I am purely a technocrat and I reject all ideological labels.

— Gita Gopinath

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

We have incredible record labels in Australia, but sometimes they have a preconceived idea of how to do things.

— Jessica Mauboy

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power…

— Queen Rania of Jordan

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate…

— Lasse Hallstrom

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

— Franz Kafka

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

— Audre Lorde

Putting a label [homosexual] on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was…

— Barbara Gittings

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

— Marco Rubio

Gucci Mane is my brother, Birdman also, we're working together but it is a form of brotherhood. We're friends but there is…

— Young Thug

I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end…

— Edi Gathegi

The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The…

— Robert Ringer

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have;…

— Joe Nichols

People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs…

— Greg Ginn

I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which…

— Robert Anton Wilson

Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels,…

— Anonymous

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was…

— Marco Rubio

[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in…

— Bertrand Russell

I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a…

— Lana Del Rey

Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control,…

— Laura Jane Grace

I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's…

— Oprah Winfrey

Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're…

— Octavia Butler

I was just thinking of Rush. I went to see Rush a few years ago, because my record label guy in the…

— Sarah Harmer

Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as…

— Philip Zimbardo

“Reagan's going to mess everything up, cutting taxes for the wealthy and getting rid of the safety net and all that. The…

— Alvin Orloff

I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die.

— Moby

I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels.

— Aimee Mann

“Labels only destroy the world and disrupt peace.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm

— Drake

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

— Karl Marx

Labels are limiting, and I don't like them.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Major labels don't play with samples not being cleared.

— Mike Dean

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.

— Patti Smith