Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.
Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.
I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.
Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.
If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion...
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.
I represent the public, not public opinion.
If your opinion needs to be corrected than it is not your opinion.
If you're not polarizing, you failed, in my opinion.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
In America, public opinion is the leader.
Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.
Public opinion in this country is everything.
The biggest cause of divorse in my opinion is marriage
Public opinion is a second conscience.
