#pinions

I remember once I asked Wayne for the time," Miller told Mercer. "He started talking to me about the cosmos and how time is relative." Miller and [Wayne] Shorter were waiting somewhere -- an airport, a train station, a hotel. The band's keyboardist, Joe Zawinul, who took charge of such matters as what the road crew was supposed to do and when, set Miller straight. "You don't ask Wayne shit like that," he snapped. "It's 7:06 p.m." [p.1] ↗

— Ben Ratliff

#jazz-interviews #musicians-opinions #music

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions." (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953) ↗

— Albert Einstein

#dissent #equanimity #expressing #knowledge #opinions

Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don’t get him on the subject of his boss. According to Mr. Crouch…as I was saying to Mr. Crouch… Mr. Crouch is of the opinion… Mr. Crouch was telling me… They’ll be announcing their engagement any day now. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#ron-weasley #opinions

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. ↗

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

#judgement #judging #opinions #opinions

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right. ↗

— Ashleigh Brilliant

#changed #fact #humble #humor #opinions

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. ↗

— Jane Austen

#general #give #mind #more #opinions

Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any. ↗

— Daisy Bates

#differ #having #least #most #opinions

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ↗

— John Dawkins

#elevated #fond #lofty #man #opinions

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#always #i #my own #opinions #own

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear. ↗

— Barney Frank

#activists #concerned #facts #get #give