Derren Brown Quotes

Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

Liberalism is: To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly

I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.

Good people can disagree.

The ideal is to build a culture of healthy discussion, where everyone's ideas are valued. At KIND, we want everyone to be comfortable challenging my or anyone else's ideas without ever feeling or making someone else feel that the questioning is a personal attack.

I don't want just attitude and loud opinion.

It's always very important that you can completely disagree with someone, but it doesn't fundamentally mean that they are bad people.

I don't like controversies. I try to understand where a person comes from and where he is.

We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

Being respected by people on both sides of the aisle is really important to me - even in an age when giving a hearing to 'both sides' is considered a smear in some corners.

I'm not about the drama.

Let's cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we're right but listen like we're wrong.

What sells more, criticism or compliments? What do people like more? They enjoy blood.

Yeah, you can disagree with someone and still be cool - that's a thing!

Ain't no problem with me and Kevin Gates; everybody just trippin'.

I have no problem with people challenging my views and my positions. I want to be clear that I'm not asking anybody to stop challenging me. But I will not accept being called an anti-Semite.

I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

Meeting at our fault lines is much more interesting to me than meeting at shared values. I'm not trying to sell you something. If anything, I'm trying to show you where we are. There is nothing to hide.

You can do TV and radio without the personal insults.

I have ideas, but those ideas could be wrong. The only way that you would change someone's mind is through dialogue, through productive discussion. If you're not going to have productive discussion, what are you going to do?

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand.

I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

One of the most powerful lessons I learned is when you make an argument in a film, you have to make sure both characters are right.

There is a way to disagree with someone, but it doesn't have to be threatening.