Best 518 quotes in «labels quotes» category

Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.

Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

Gucci Mane is my brother, Birdman also, we're working together but it is a form of brotherhood. We're friends but there is no need to contract. In a sense, I'm signed on their labels, but there is no lawyer, no contract.

Hamas retains the right to defend Gaza by the use of the weaponry at its disposal, and is thus not committed to nonviolence, but it does offer the possibility of greater peace and stability for both Israelis and Palestinians if the label of "terrorism" was abandoned and the search for accommodation was commenced in good faith.

Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!” She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te label read WARNING. DO NOT OPEN. “Open it!” Leo yelled again.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.

I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know.

I always recommend people read nutrition labels so they know, for instance, how much fiber they're getting.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

I can't say I'm one way or the other because I've honestly fallen in love with a man and I've honestly fallen in love with a woman. I don't know how you label that, it's just how it is.

I can't wait until the record label feels like it's time for my album to come out, and then just disappear.

I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.

I consider us to be one of the first Internet-based bands, especially because we basically started our entire band via the Internet. Before MySpace Music even existed, we had a band MySpace page. We were one of the first fifty bands on PureVolume(.com), and we really built everything from the Internet. That's how we started talking to record labels, that's how we booked our first tours. Without the Internet social networking, like Twitter, we definitely wouldn't be where we are today. It is a huge part of the band.

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.

I could never release something on the label I didn't personally love. The label's really an extension of my own musical career, and I'm intensely involved with every aspect personally, so it'd be a betrayal to myself if I released something simply because I thought it would make money.

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

I do feel like I'm a survivor because the music industry is still a boys' club. I really respect all the women in the business. I know trusting yourself is hard work but it helps you avoid all the traps and labels that come with being in this business.

I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.

I don't know if I'd put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.

I don't get involved in record label politics.

I don't have a label, I don't have a manager, I'm doing everything myself.

I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

I don't have any pressure on myself. I don't have a big record label backing me. I'm doing it all myself.

I don't label myself one way or another. I love who I love; it's the person that matters.

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

I don't like the label 'plus-size' -- I call it 'fiercely real.' On 'Top Model,' we call it fiercely real. I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much. But people want to label everything... So I guess I seem indifferent in that way.

If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

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.

I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label?

If in fact the Republicans make some modifications [of Obamacare], some of which I may have been seeking previously, but they wouldn't cooperate because they didn't wanna make the system work, and re-label it as Trumpcare, I'm fine with that.

If it's a good record or a good recording, then word of mouth will build for that reason, not before the fact, not before anyone's heard it, not because of MySpace or the label.

If I was rich enough, I would love to launch my own record label. I would love to try and give all my musically talented friends a start in the industry.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that most true artists shouldn't have to make.