Michael Cimino Quotes

I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

When are we going to stop labeling everyone? How many times have I been referred to as 'out gay actor?' Do we say, 'out heterosexual actor' when we refer to Tom Hanks?

I am tired of the constant demonizing of people via political labels.

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.

These Jews seem to think of nothing but making money and sexual indulgence …. Ninety-Five percent of these folks are Jews of Eastern European lineage. They are probably the scum of the earth.

I save all my good e-mails. Listen to this one: 'You liberals should be deported.'

Labeling someone as an '-ist' who believes in an '-ism' because of the person's policy preference is just a shortcut to playground-style name-calling, cloaked in political terminology.

People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

There will be a moment in life, whether you're forceful or not, where someone will label you something that is negative.

Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

A lot of people call me gay because they don't see me with anyone.

Somebody called me a homophobe. I'm not homophobic.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.