Labels Quotes

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

What labels me, negates me.

It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

I think you've got to keep it simple, keep it fresh. Stay away from all that processed stuff, read the labels.

As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought.

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

You can't just buy things for the label - it's ridiculous.

To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan

The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years.

Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.

Probably the label 'Jesus freak' is fine with me. Because I know who I am.

Chase God's heart today. Christianity has got to be more than a label, a lingo, and a lifestyle.

It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

Labels applied to people of any race are inherently offensive.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

I'm signed to Atlantic through 300 Entertainment [Lyor Cohen's label]. That is my only contractual relationship.

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

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

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

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

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsner Beer' on the label. It is a crime.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

There seems to be a lot of name-calling going on, but I want to remind you what our good dad told me one time. Labels are for soup cans.

Forget trendy designer labels. Jeans, a sweater or a t-shirt worn under a jacket that seems welded to you. When it's just right, when you don't see the effort, it's irresistible.

When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.

Labels are for cans, not people.

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

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.

I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual,' but bi-curious? Yea.

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

Don't put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for.

The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals.

I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.

I think bisexuality is frowned upon for a lot of different reasons. But I don't like any of those words. I don't like any of those labels. I think they're limiting.

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.

Very active in the label, maybe to a fault sometimes.

Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being.

Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.