Labelled Quotes

Once you label me you negate me.

Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

I want longevity; I love music, being a musician is the greatest gift in the world to me, and if I were to get signed to a label, my family and team around me are always gonna be there to make sure they want the very best for me. My fans are what it's all about.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.

Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound.

That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.

I hope one day it won't matter who you're in love with.

Gender is just a word. LOVE is beautiful. labels are for assholes. don't ever stop being yourselves.

When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

Question: Why is that MC's be wack And major labels wanna sign that crap? A-yo...funk that!

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker.

Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland.

They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker.

Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

Personally, I resent being tagged ‘glamour girl.

’ It’s such an absurd, extravagant label. It implies so much that I’m not.

The American spirit wears no political label.

In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

Who are you? Answer; you are who you are in this given moment. Label-less. Limitless. Remember that from this day forward.

Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis.

Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

The Universe doesn’t make mistakes.

Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us.

Method acting is a label I don't really understand, because there's a method to everybody's acting.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product.

That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

The Delphic oracles of the disease theory of delinquency (the "experts") have slapped all manner of misconduct with diagnostic labels... The arsonist has ”pyromania,” the thief is inflicted with ”kleptomania,” and Bill Clinton is not promiscuous, but a ”sex-addict."

I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that.

They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal.

It's a habit of mine now, noticing labels, logos, shoes.

Black folks in America are telling one party, 'We don't give a damn about you.

' They're telling the other party, 'You've got our vote.' Therefore, you have labeled yourself 'disenfranchised' because one party knows they've got you under their thumb. The other party knows they'll never get you and nobody comes to address your interest.

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.