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You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.

It's one thing to say, 'I don't like what you said to me and I find it rude and offensive,' but the moment you threaten violence in return, you've taken it to another level, where you lose whatever credibility you had.

I don't take criticism lying down.

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

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

I'm not here to criticize anyone.