I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel.
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Related I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas. CARLA BRUNI I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you. REBA MCENTIRE You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buyin... RON CHERNOW I never say "If I were her, this is how I would have acted, this is what I would have done, etc. etc... C. JOYBELL C. I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monop... J. D. VANCE Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past arti... FRENCH MONTANA You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ba... XAVI I don't judge people. I don't even judge people on 'The Voice.' I'm a coach. I... CEELO GREEN Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just ... JESSICA HAHN If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ... NATE DIAZ Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don&... VANILLA ICE That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want ... FRAN TARKENTON You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ... MARIO BALOTELLI Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram... HOWARD AIKEN People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't ... ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a... ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don'... ALAN ARKIN Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parentin... JOYCE MEYER Did you know you can't say 'Jesus' in a sitcom? They told me that, and I was like, You g... TYLER PERRY I don't believe in guilt; I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt... ANGELINA JOLIE What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make yo... TIM SCHAFER It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say.... MICHAEL JACKSON I don't cook fancy every day. I don't think anybody can, nor would it be very good for you. AARTI SEQUEIRA I don't judge people on their personal lives. BEBE REXHA I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with yo... GABRIEL IGLESIAS I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're idea... ADAM SAVAGE Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattract... JOEL OSTEEN If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell... ERNST FISCHER I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even ... CHRISTOPHER PARKER I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don&... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you.... KOBE BRYANT I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not ve... DANIEL JOHNS I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe,... CARRIE UNDERWOOD When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know an... CICELY TYSON I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti... ELLE FANNING I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,'... BASSEM YOUSSEF You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you any... LEE IACOCCA I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I ... MADONNA CICCONE At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don&... MUHAMMAD ALI You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... ROSALYNN CARTER You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people t... TAHJ MOWRY I don't have Facebook; I don't have Twitter. I don't have anything because, believe it o... WISSAM AL MANA Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a ... KALPANA CHAWLA You don't judge a book by a cover. I'm not your typical rap look. ACTION BRONSON If you don't have a voice that forces you back to basics, you're a dangerous person. Or to p... STEVE WYNN You have to really want it, and don't take it personally if you don't get a job. Because som... CAROL BURNETT At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ... TYGA You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just foc... KEVIN HART Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ... DENNIS WEAVER If I don't laugh at least 20 times a day - it hasn't been a good day. JORDIN SPARKS I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don&... TONY CURRAN I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely ... MIKA BRZEZINSKI Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to inven... RAY DOLBY If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. The... MAISIE WILLIAMS There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em. YOGI BERRA I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - wh... ZAC GOLDSMITH I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly... SARAH JESSICA PARKER To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of t... LEONARD LAUDER I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the sam... KRISTEN STEWART Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself. ANDRES INIESTA I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't thin... DAVID WALLIAMS No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don... NICK CAVE I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidenta... HELEN MIRREN People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'... TERI GARR Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's s... ANNA QUINDLEN Golf courses are beautiful, it's good for the soul and it gets out the anger... well, if you don... MATTHEW GOODE Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating she... YO-YO MA People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W... J. J. WATT People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folk... GARY LARSON If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at ... BERNARD SUMNER I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, s... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much ... LINDA RONSTADT With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're ... DOUGLAS BRUNT The one thing I've always said: Let your family and close friends be the judge of who you are as... RICK PITINO To the people I forgot, you weren't on my mind for some reason and you probably don't deserv... EMINEM You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they'r... ADAM GRANT In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very C... MARJANE SATRAPI You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other... JACK YOUNGBLOOD You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't. WILLIE ROBERTSON Americans don't want immigration. They don't want any more. Why can't we have a home? Yo... ANN COULTER You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta cle... ED BEGLEY, JR. You can't be funny if you don't have good material. MATT LEBLANC Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don&... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the medi... J. A. KONRATH I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized... CHARLIE KAUFMAN I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct thei... LARRY THE CABLE GUY In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no... ANGEL CABRERA For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the bi... HAMDI ULUKAYA Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I... NICK VUJICIC I think you have to be cool to be a good flirt, and I don't think I'm very cool. HARRY STYLES I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad da... JULIANNE HOUGH I realised that if you get yourself labeled as the funny one, people don't look any further. I... CATHERINE TATE I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself,... LUCILLE BALL Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people'... BRYAN FULLER Food is a weapon - a very effective weapon. People don't cultivate, don't farm, you cut the ... TOM CATENA I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ... ADELE Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. Bu... RENZO PIANO It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han... MITCH HEDBERG I can't understand people who give up and commit suicide. If I have a bad day, I figure tomorrow... ROD MCKUEN
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