Shelby Steele

In talking with affirmative-action administrators and with blacks and whites in general, I found that supporters of affirmative action focus on its good intentions and detractors emphasize its negative effects. It was virtually impossible to find people outside either camp.

American Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.

American Novelist

Gretchen Carlson

Once I turned 40, I stopped giving a rip about my detractors, the people who say nasty things. It's more candid and honest than it would have been. I share my failures, which is important.

American Journalist

Phil Anselmo

You're always going to have detractors, and you're always going to have people who love you, and that's how it's perfectly balanced and the world spins on.

American Musician

Dave Morris

Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.

British Author

Trudie Styler

I have such a fortunate life that of course I will have my detractors. I have a very endowed life.

English Actress

Pete Hoekstra

Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.

American Politician

Vijender Singh

Scrutiny has never scared me because I have had detractors all my life.

Indian Athlete

Henry Rollins

Unsurprisingly, Nelson Mandela had and still has many detractors.

Thom Tillis

You're always going to have your detractors.

Keep in mind 'detractor' may imply that criticism is unfair or not completely justified.

Possible Unfairness

'Detractor' goes beyond 'critic' by suggesting active efforts to discredit.

Beyond Criticism

A 'detractor' often expresses their criticism repeatedly, not just once.

Intensified Opposition

 It just means that I'm acknowledging the humanity of someone who was raised to think very differently from me. I also want to be super clear about something. This is not a prescription for activism. I understand that some people don't feel safe talking to their detractors and others feel so marginalized

Empathy Is Not...

 in fact, his life depended on proving that he had committed the fraud. Like many art forgers, Han van Meegeren was an artist whose original works had failed to bring him renown. Embittered towards the art world, van Meegeren set out to make fools of his detractors.

The art forger who...

 drunk found out what kind of whiskey he drinks and send a barrel to rest of my generals if there is no proof that Lincoln actually said that there is evidence and I've seen it that he confronted grants detractors with these words I can't spare that man he fights

Winston Groom: The...

 have told me that the show has changed their lives, how it helped them shift their relationship to their own and other people's bodies, and how it made them confront their own bias. But of course, work that pushes people's buttons is not without its detractors.

Enough with the fear of...

 And I fear that if we do not, as the citizenry -- which are, in my opinion, the most important leg of that stool -- don't take our role, then you are right. The detractors, or the people telling you that businesses will prevail, are right. It will happen.

What everyday citizens...

 produce some eggs well we're stapling down this here wire so that no mink or critters can sneak in while we're not looking the weasels on the mink all work their way up they can chew through stuff and so the wire is definitely going to be a detractor for

It Takes a Village PIPE...

 gunmen days after he refused to sell his land to people she said were connected to the kingdom kibbeh Lloyd dismissed the claims was totally false and baseless many of those detractors of ours you know sometimes pick up some of

The New Son of God PIPE...

 to remove the marble friezes and take them home to England his partisans say he saved these stunning artworks from vandals who were pulling them apart without him they say the marbles wouldn't exist but to his detractors

Parthenon Battle PIPE...

 can't be pulled on deck and his contents are sucked into the ship with a vacuum supporters say it's an effective way to harvest schools of herring detractors say the trawlers are depleting herring in some areas and

Herring Hazards PIPE...

 many insisted they would never replace horses. Less than a century later, people repeated that same prediction about cars, telephones, radio, television, and computers. Each had their own host of detractors.