Quotes by category:Labels

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of what we are feeling and needing.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

demand labels feelings

I should come with a consumer warning, like the labels that say "Handle with care" or "May be hazardous to your health." I am unfit for human consumption. I struggle to articulate how awful and isolating this feels, but I can't find the words.

labels warning struggle

When you see a handwritten envelope addressed to you in your packet of mail when you get your mail out of the mailbox - when you see a personal letter waiting for you - it's exciting. It touches you. You say "Oh, somebody really thought of me and didn't just slap a mailing label across an envelope. Somebody wrote something to me."

Martha Williamson

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You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label. by Mark Twain

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

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It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

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In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, why you have to sit on the potty, why you can't take whatever you want in the store, why you don't hit your friends--by the time we got to why you can't drop your peas, well, I was dropping a few myself.

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In the late 80s, artists could be signed to labels and be nurtured. It wasn't, "We're going to give you one shot, and if you don't measure up, you're gone".

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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I’ve done well, I’ve been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It’s the music business. You are a business. That’s what they do. So you’ve got to protect yourself.

labels done thinking

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

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If a record label will sign you in order for you to be moulded into something that can make more money for them, then you should get out of there if you're that artist.

labels artist order

Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

gossip labels thinking

I never wanted to do the same kind of movies over and over anyway, so my theory on it all is I'm just gonna try and dodge the label and keep doing what I am doing.

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"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in... by Matthea Harvey

"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.

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When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.

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It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

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All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

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Drink wine, not labels. by Maynard Amerine

Drink wine, not labels.

Maynard Amerine

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The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people.

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For me, I guess, just learning that just because there's not a whole lot of female MCs on the front lines being supported by major record labels doesn't mean they don't exist. It doesn't mean they don't have the drive and the competitive nature and the will and the way.

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