Dan Rather Quotes

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

I am frequently attacked.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad.

I have haters. I have so many haters.

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

I was sad Jon Ronson, who wrote in the Guardian and has made a TV show for Channel 4, took against me.

Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

I have a lot of critics; we all know that.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me—yes, they have even criticized me!

They've been bashing me since I started making films.

Obviously I'm going to have haters.

We're definitely going to get some flak each and every day, whether it's social-media keyboard warriors, or people in person.

To me, I got a bunch of haters. Mobb Deep - and Prodigy, speaking for myself - I got a bunch of haters.

When you dig down and look at the people who are vocal in their criticism of me, it's a small number.

Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

I got booed a lot of places.

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.

You're an idiot. You've screwed up every play we ever ran. You're too stupid to even remember the plays. We ought to get rid of you.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

It's wonderful to be hated by idiots.