“Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.”
Attacks on Abbott cheap and nasty, says Pell, 15 February 2006, 27 March 2019, The Age https://web.archive.org/web/20081015074924/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,18152356-2702,00.html, <br class="br">Response to Liberal MP Danna Vale's comment that Australia's rising abortion rate indicated that it might become a Muslim nation in 50 years. <br class="br">2006
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“Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
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“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927–2003) American politician
Quoted in Robert Sobel's review of Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies edited by Mark C. Carnes. <br class="br">Quoted in Timothy J. Penny, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/207925/facts-are-facts-timothy-j-penny, National Review September 4, 2003. <br class="br">Ellen Hume, Tabloids, Talk Radio and the Future of News, part 4 http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids4.html ( TOC http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids_contents.html), 1995 cites this as something Moynihan said to a "1994 electoral opponent on WNBC in New York". <br class="br">However, proceedings http://web.archive.org/web/20141031220947/http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/96id_protection.pdf of a Senate Intelligence Committee in 1980 attribute the identical quote to James R. Schlesinger (at p. 110), possibly made during the course of 1973 Congressional testimony. <br class="br">Also see Bernard Baruch, who said "Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." in the January 6, 1950 issue of the Deming (New Mexico) Headlight <br class="br">See also this Barry Popik blog http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/everyone_is_entitled_to_his_own_opinion_but_not_his_own_facts for some etymological research into this quote and its variants. <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts. <br class="br">Variant: You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts. <br class="br">Variant: You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts.
“How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.”
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“Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”
Rudyard Kipling book Plain Tales from the Hills
On the Strength of a Likeness.
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“That's certainly one point of view. Quite understandable.”
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Greek poet
" In The Year 200 B.C. http://cavafis.compupress.gr/kave_1.htm" (1931) <br class="br">Context: The Spartans weren't to be led<br>and ordered around<br>like precious servants. Besides,<br>they wouldn't have thought a pan-Hellenic expedition<br>without a Spartan king in command<br>was to be taken very seriously.<br>Of course, then, "except the Lacedaimonians." That's certainly one point of view. Quite understandable.
