I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like…

In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

— Frances Mayes

I'd like to have mass appeal, but not at the expense of what I am and what I do best.

— Stephanie Mills

“The mass is all which sets no value on itself──good or ill──based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everything" ... The…

— Jose Ortega Ygasset

“I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one…

— Marianne Moore

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.

— Sallust

It is a great bond to dislike the same things.

— George Santayana

A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't…

— Bob Barr

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow…

— Janet Yellen

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

— Robert Altman

I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be…

— Jay Carney

I do have very strong, very conflicted feelings about rating systems and social media.

— Rashida Jones

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

— Madonna Ciccone

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured…

— Sally Struthers

A year ago, my approval rating was in the 30s, my nominee for the supreme court had just withdrawn, and my vice president had…

— George W. Bush

While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and…

— Jon Stewart