#criticized

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that. ↗

— Buck Owens

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We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

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Our opponent and many in Congress criticized our decision to end the Iraq war. ↗

— David Plouffe

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I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

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It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame. ↗

— Ville Valo

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