Labeled Quotes

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

Huge numbers of embassy cables are labeled ‘unclassified’ or ‘limited official use‘ and deal with mundane matters.

I haven‘t gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor.

People have labeled the Process as whatever, tanking. I don’t see it like that.

Jeb Bush has been labeled ‘low energy,’ and he will be so for the rest of his life, because Mr. Trump labeled him that way. He’s a master brander. Marco Rubio is going to be ‘Little Marco’ forever. Ted Cruz is ‘Lyin’ Ted,’ because that’s what people understand.

There’s an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn’t 100 percent perfect, or you’re labeled anti-Semitic.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

For so long, we were labeled – you’re a girly girl, you’re a tomboy, you’re this or that – but now we can do what we want. One style doesn’t define me.

Human sexuality is not always about being labeled. It’s about having a human moment, an emotion.

For some reason I’ve been labeled that and it’s fine, but there are a lot of other artists that sing real traditional stuff, so I don’t know why they picked me. That’s what I’ve always done.

We are all people… don’t label me as an LGBT rapper or a female rapper… I don’t like to be labeled.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

I’m not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I’m here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.

Growing up, I was constantly labeled an ‘oreo’ by my black peers because of my proper speech and ‘valley girl accent.’

The framework of men’s wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

Childhood, young adulthood is fluid. And it’s very easy to get labeled very young and have to carry something through your childhood and into your adulthood that is not necessarily who you are.

Hollywood is like a really sad, grown up version of high school where people get labeled as ‘cool,’ ‘not cool,’ ‘jock,’ ‘bombshell,’ ‘quirky‘… it’s like a caste system. You’re either in, or you’re out.

I used to unwind the wire tags that labeled the crates of vegetables and took the fine brass and steel wires and braided and twisted them together to make bracelets, rings, and figures.

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It’s not really anything; it’s just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

In the American office lexicon, ‘aging‘ – and its close cousin ‘old’ – are inconsistent modifiers. While older women are often labeled as ‘tired‘ and ‘out of touch,’ aging men get to be ‘distinguished‘ and ‘seasoned.’

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn’t funny. It’s a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it’s not a surprise anymore.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

The projects I have done on television, they’re sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that’s why they’re labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they’re sitcoms because they’re situational comedies.

For me, I’ve never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

To be labeled a ‘science-denier’ in 2017 often just means you’ve upset someone who insists on teaching strict, Darwinian orthodoxy in schools or who advocates particular climate legislation or who supports ethically fraught research on embryos.

I was labeled ‘P-E-A,’ which is patient expired on arrival. I guess that’s the politically correct way of saying you didn’t make it.

Even as someone who’s labeled a conservative – I’m a Republican I’m black, I’m heading up this organization in the Reagan administration – I can say that conservatives don’t exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they’re welcome.

The U.S. have printed money; they intend to tax the rich in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. These are things that sees anyone who dares to propose them in Greece and Europe labeled an extremist, when at the same time, it’s what Obama does.

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don’t know how to do anything else.

It’s not crime that makes us more punitive in the United States. It’s the way we respond to crime and how we view those people who have been labeled criminals.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

In England, I’m already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I’m not a rock photographer at all.

It’s a disease of critics that once they’ve labeled someone, it’s very hard to change their perspective. It’s laziness.

I’ve always tried to stay clear of being labeled, putting a label on what type of music that I make.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today’s standards.

High school is all about hierarchies, labels, cliques – we are labeled and structured. Everyone goes through it, more or less.

I don’t want to be labeled one thing. My main thing I care about is being able to create the things I want to do with my friends, whatever platform that is.

Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they’ve been previously frozen. To a consumer, there’s no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn’t be.

Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I’ve been labeled – short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy – turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn’t become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.

I’ve learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional.

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women’s rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran’s culture.

Writers aren’t born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.

When you play on bad defensive teams, you get labeled as a bad defender.

Why is it when a woman makes a film or a movie stars a female cast it is labeled women-centric because it is not white, male and middle-class men?

Once labeled a felon, you are ushered into a parallel social universe. You can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits – forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind.

It doesn’t bother me when I’m labeled, but it’s so… limiting. It’s so boxy.

I got labeled as the guy who didn’t coach and sat around and talked. I know what I do, so I don’t worry about it.

Yes, I believe in equality. But I don’t like the word ‘feminist,’ because it’s such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I’m a rational person. You shouldn’t be labeled for being reasonable.

Once you’re labeled as mentally ill, and that’s in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

I generally don’t think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

Discrimination in virtually every aspect of political, economic, and social life is now perfectly legal if you’ve been labeled a felon.

Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims – this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.

For decades, the liberal media eviscerated the Religious Right and other conservatives for their own attacks against liberal social causes. Over time, the media labeled anyone who didn’t agree with the Left’s world view as intolerant.

A lot of times when kids get in trouble they might get labeled or judged for mistakes that they made at a young age.

Women get labeled ‘bossy‘ when it’s like, ‘Maybe I’m a leader. Maybe I just know what I want.’

I’ve been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided – sometimes all in the span of a single week. That’s life in the NFL.

There is a reason I am labeled ‘The Most Expensive Body On Earth.’

When I started thinking about it, I was like, ‘OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I’ll be very much celebrated, in a way, and honored.’

I hope people listen to the music. Don’t write it off because there is a Christian doing it and it’s been labeled that way, because if I’m honest with you, Christian rap for the most part has been corny.

People have labeled me homophobic. If I was homophobic, I wouldn’t have friends who are gay and lesbian, so that can’t be true.

Women’s emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from ‘pleasantness,’ and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak.

Everyone wants to label me, but I don’t want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you’ll be labeled a political writer.

I’ve always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

I’ve always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone’s ‘girlfriend‘ was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you ‘famous’ isn’t always what you want to be ‘labeled’ as or known for.

Queens is so often treated as a stepchild and labeled as an outer borough. At the very least, if I could help bring more attention to what we need, and what the federal government needs to do to improve the quality of life of people right here in Queens – any way that I can do that, I’m very happy to do that.

My experiences in high school, in which I was used to being unfairly labeled, unfairly maligned, gave me the thick skin that I needed.

In the NFL, if you make the play or you don’t make the play, you’re just a football player who did or didn’t make the play. You don’t get more yards or less yards based on what you’re labeled as by society.

I think the most important thing… is leadership. It’s something that has been lacking in young women and girls for a very long time, not because we don’t want to but because of what society has labeled women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we should be given every opportunity.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

Do I recognize that I’ve been labeled as a prosperity preacher? I recognize that.

Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education, public benefits, much like their grandparents or great grandparents may have been discriminated against during the Jim Crow era.

‘The Assassination of Jesse James‘ remains one of my favorite films that I’ve done. You know, it’s still labeled a loser.

Whether it’s an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.

A lot of people say, ‘What set the Attitude Era up?’ or, ‘What started the Attitude Era?’ To me – and I was allegedly the leader of it – sports entertainment, pro wrestling, whatever you want to call it has always had an attitude. So, why that particular generation got labeled, I don’t know.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

I don’t want to be labeled as a certain style producer; I just want to be producer and musician in general.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

I’ve always been labeled… people think things are handed to me.

Being labeled as someone who would cheat hurts more than anything else I’ve ever been through in my career.

I think sometimes Hall of Famers might get labeled as guys who aren’t suited for a coaching job or to be back at the Major League level.

Once you are labeled ‘the best‘ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.

I’m glad my son doesn’t have to be labeled black or Samoan or mixed. He has instead been labeled as the best.

For lack of a better term, they’ve labeled me a sex symbol. It’s flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the U.K., you’re labeled a racist.

I’ve been labeled all my life.