The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.
I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.
While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.
We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small businesses get out of this recession and into recovery.
Honey, I am the chief of my train. If critics want to hop on board, fantastic. There's plenty of room. The KP train is fun.
Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal.
I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored.
When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.
This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.
Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.
If I were less than honest as a critic, I think people would spot that right away, and it would destroy my credibility.
Humans spend more time finding ways to fight and criticize who they consider a threat than actually learning how to overcome that threat.
An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
No one understands my accent. I'm constantly going to auditions and being told they don't like how I talk. You have to live with criticism, and I don't take it personally.
I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
