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I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

When you're out there talking about your faith and what you believe in, you'll face some backlash. But mostly, I've received support.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

There's backlash about everything I do.

The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.

When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it's sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there's a backlash. It's a double standard.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

I never worry about the social backlash against my work because I'm a man in a dress, and somehow American society creates a buffer on how severe things are when you put a man in a dress.

Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.

Right now, we happen to be in a general period of regression, not just in education. A lot of what's happening is sort of backlash to the 60s; the 60s were a democratizing period.

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

I don't think I've ever heard anybody in this Regime counsel restraint and advise, "No backlash against cops. We must maintain the order."

Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

[On the racial backlash about Hunger Games casting]: "People should have ignored the five racist idiots.

When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.

There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.

I think that feminism is in cycle. Feminism rotates between backlash and interest.

There is always backlash. Everything gets backlash.

Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking.

There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue in Hollywood.

We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.

Just days after Mitt Romney suggested he might run for president, there's been a backlash. The backlash is led by Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee, and just to hedge his bets on every issue, Mitt Romney.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.

And if I see you step foot on my property again, I’ll do more than make a phone call, ” he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.

It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.