Paula Deen Quotes

I do ask myself why I make people so enraged, because I only ever say what I think. And while I know it might not be everyone's point of view, that doesn't seem particularly intolerable to me.

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess.

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

There are certain things I don't want to joke about. If it's about somebody else, it's fine. If it's about me, I think it's totally insensitive!

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

I pick up on other people's discomfort.

I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story.

Prohibiting any words not approved of as 'politically correct' - that's not progressive. Putting 'trigger warnings' on books, movies, music, anything that might offend people - that's not progressive, either.

I'm not a politically correct person.

I think too many people are offended by stuff that doesn't matter.

It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.

Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.

It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.

You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.

I don't know how people act. I've never understood that.