Haters Quotes
Dealing with haters is a modern rite of passage, especially online. These quotes take a confident, sometimes humorous stance on criticism, jealousy, and the strange compliment of having people invested enough to dislike you.
Use them for bold social media captions, pep talks before a big move, or journal entries when you need to shake off negativity. Have a look through and pick your favourite.
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“When I take good care of myself, it lifts my spirits, boosts my confidence, and makes me feel strong. When someone tries to throw me shade, it bounces right off. I look those haters straight in the eye, keep my chin up and shoulders back. Because I know I'm a fierce queen - and they know it, too.”
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“Haters are fans in denial.”
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“If you don't have haters, you're doing something wrong.”
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“Sometimes your haters are your biggest motivators.”
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“When you have haters, you're doing something right.”
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“Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.”
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“I don't let the haters get their way.”
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“I use my haters as my motivators.”
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“You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.”
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“You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.”
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“Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it.”
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“When there's so many haters and negative things, I really don't care.”
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“Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.”
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“When you get haters you actually feel like you're a success.”
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“Don't respond to haters' taunts - even politely. Ignore them. If nobody takes their bait, most will grow bored and move on.”
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“I have to say I thank the haters that motivate me and push me to be my best.”
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“The haters will always hate.”
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“No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.”
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“I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.”
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“There are always going to be haters.”
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“I deal with haters on a daily basis.”
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“I'm a grown woman. The haters are definitely wrong if they think I care.”
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“You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters.”
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“The haters always scream the loudest.”
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“Everybody on top has a ton of haters.”
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“I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers.”
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“If you don't have haters, you're not doing anything.”
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“I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.”
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“My haters is bigger than life.”
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“There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.”
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“Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it…. There's gonna be haters.”
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“I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.”
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“The haters want to hate. They want to talk about this and talk about that. We don't even acknowledge it.”
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“Now my haters are very high class people, so I feel like I've moved up.”
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“I don't care whether people say, ''The Office' is rubbish, 'Extras' is worse, 'Flanimals' is a waste of time. He's not funny; he never has been. I hate him.' I don't mind that at all. In fact, not only do I expect it, I celebrate it, because I think the haters are really important.”
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“Haters are our ammunition. They motivate us to continue fighting for our rights. That's why I continue to share my story.”
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“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.”
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“Everybody has haters and lovers. That's what life is all about.”
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“Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.”
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“You're going to have haters and you're going to have lovers.”
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“You're going to have haters no matter what you do.”
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“Haters will be haters, you have got to acknowledge them and move on as the ratio of love to hate is too high.”
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“When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.”
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“Angry fans, it's part of - well look, if you don't have haters, you're doing something wrong.”
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“I realized that I get pleasure when I'm told, 'Don't listen to the haters; they're losers in their moms' basements.' I imagine these 'losers' and feel better about myself. Their insults hurt less if I label them 'pathetic.' I diminish their value in order to protect mine. I noticed that I'm quick to make a joke at someone else's expense.”
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“Man, I got to say I love my haters because they challenge myself… it challenges me. It challenges me to be better. It challenges me to show who I am and that I deserve to be who I am.”
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“I'm sure there are some haters out there, but I just put my blinders on.”
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“I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.”
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“Everybody's got haters, but your city's always behind you. It's only right to give back.”
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“The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.”
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“People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there gives people the impression that they have haters. It's all for attention so it looks like they are important.”
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“There will always be haters. Small heroes can change society every day. It just takes time.”
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“The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrenders to God.' But the press makes us seem like haters.”
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“I hate that you get beat up so much about an accomplishment, but I guess that's part of life. Haters gonna hate.”
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“My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.”
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“When I came into the UFC, even though I had a lot of hype behind me, there were a lot of haters and criticism.”
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“I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.”
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“When you lose, people that you think aren't going to come at you, will come at you, because they're haters.”
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“From Snoop, I've learned quite a bit. I learned that sometimes I need to keep my mouth shut. It's a long story, but definitely to sometimes keep my mouth shut. I also learned to always ignore the haters.”
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“I have haters. I have so many haters.”
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“The haters can go to any extent to get the attention and I'm used to trolling.”
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“I always joke about letting the haters motivate you. Everybody has that in their life, people who doubt them or make them feel less than they are. It just takes faith and belief in yourself, and you've got to dig deep into that. That has to come from you - nobody's going to give you that.”
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“I'm in prison. But my heart and mind is free. Gangsta haters on the streets are doing more time than me. They need 30 police escorts with them every time they walk down the street.”
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“As soon as you are a woman with an opinion, and they don't like it, the haters will come out in full force.”
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“My goal is to go out there and dominate. We all know if I'm in a position and I see my opponent hurt by landing good striking, I'm going to try to get him out of there. If I'm in the top position or in the position to finish by submission, I'm going to look for that. I don't feel the need to prove the haters wrong.”
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“I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.”
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“When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.”
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“When you're succeeding, and you're doing something right… As I've got haters, I know I'm doing something right.”
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“I'm not one of these Disney haters. I'm really appreciative of the foundation it laid for me.”
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“You know there's a lot of haters out there that are jealous. We know how hard we work. We don't pay attention to it. If you did you'd lose your mind.”
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“It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.”
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“There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.”
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“There will always be jealous people and haters: people who assume that if they were in your shoes, they could do what you're doing. That's just the world we live in.”
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“The haters out there, I don't really pay attention to them, because I feel like I'm doing the best I can, and I just don't want that negativity into my heart and into my mind.”
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“Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.”
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“I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.”
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“Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.”
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“I've learned that people that question you are going to question you, the haters are going to hate you.”
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“I've put everything in my rearview mirror and I've continued to silence people. That's how I'm going to… continue to be happy living my life. And in the process, I silence haters.”
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“Haters will always hate.”
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“We should have a banquet on the day haters die.”
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“Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.”
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“Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.”
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“I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.”
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“People are mean and hateful, angry - haters everywhere, stupid blogs.”
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“Growing up listening to rap music, you almost feel like you should have haters. That's an important part of being a successful musician. It's a good thing, I guess.”
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“I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.”
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“If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.”
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“I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.”
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“Who I was back then, when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' is so different from who I am now. Coming off Laguna, being 19 years old, and thrown into this odd, ridiculous spotlight, wasn't for me. There have always been haters, and people don't want to give you a chance or the benefit of the doubt, but this show gave me an opportunity.”
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“The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn't necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have always been a target that people love to attack.”
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“The way I pick who gets caked is generally by who shows me the most energy and is screaming for it. I still can't help but ask myself… should I stop caking people? Will that stop the haters from hating? Stop giving the trolls more content to target me with?”
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“I don't want to be just known for the way I dress. I want to be known for how I play, how I treat people, and how I am as a role model. I don't just want to be, 'He dresses cool' or 'He dresses crazy.' You're going to have lovers and haters. I want my golf game to be the main thing.”
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“Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.”
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“Plenty of people detested Michael Jackson before his death wiped away the world's collective memory. Timberlake was originally dismissed as just another boy-bander. Legions have joined in a 'Hate Anne Hathaway' movement. Elvis, the Rolling Stones, Kristen Bell, even Mozart had haters.”
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“Everybody has haters.”
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“There was a lot of Pac haters, but I definitely love Pac. I wish I got to do a song with him.”
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“For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.'”
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“My new song 'Shrug' I created with two guys. The idea was a message about ignoring haters. People one-up you, stay true to yourself.”
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“There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.”
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“These haters are too less in number when compared to the millions who support me. I look at all those beautiful people who always stand by me. I respect them, and they equally respect me.”
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“I've been blessed; I've been getting so many amazing opportunities because of the UFC. I know there are going to be haters no matter how successful I am, and I just have to be thankful for all the blessings that I have because all of it can be over before you know it.”
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“They say Chicago is for haters. No one will just sweat each other and say, 'Oh, you're so good,' if you're not. Which is another reason I'm inspired to stay.”
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“There's a lot of haters in Philly, but it's a lot of people that give you support - but way more haters. It's definitely a great city to be from. But it's not really a lot of people that come out of there. So when you, like, make it out of Philadelphia, everywhere else is easy.”
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“Can't even see without my vintage Versace frames. I don't go nowhere without them on. I can't even live without them. Every time I throw them on, I see all the haters, and I see where the money at.”
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“There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it.”
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“'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.”
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“I think screenwriting gave me more of an affinity for plot - my first novel, 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,' doesn't have a very sophisticated roadmap. But screenwriting required me to learn a higher level of plottiness, and I tried to bring that to 'The Haters.'”
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“Haters gonna be haters, and there's nothing we can do about that.”
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“Give me a celebrity, I'll give you your haters. Some people shine, and some people don't like when they shine. Ask Barack Obama - he'll tell you.”
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“I don't court haters. I don't thrive on people not liking things that I do. I treat people the way I want to be treated.”
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“We have literally millions and millions of fans. I mean, even Kendall and Kylie have 50 million followers on Instagram - apiece. That's a hundred million people you have somehow touched emotionally, enough to follow you on a social-media platform. And I think with that also comes, you know, haters.”
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“On every single picture on my Instagram page, you'll find a negative comment. My supporters will normally stand up to that hateful person, and then it will become a big argument, and it's just a lot. I try to tell myself not to listen to the haters, and I try not to read the comments because it's not worth it.”
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“For all you Joe Besser haters who claim that he was the worst Stooge, that's not true - Curly Joe DeRita was the worst stooge. Joe Besser was the second worst.”
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“Something that I've told all of my young artists is, there are going to be haters. You're going to read things that are going to hurt you. It's not going to make any sense. Just know that it's out there and that it's really easy to just press 'delete.'”
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“I got a lot of hate mail, and that's where the term 'haters back off' came from because I got all this hate.”
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“With 'Haters Back Off,' I'm creating something that I want to make, and I'm not focused on, 'Is this gonna trend, is this gonna be popular?' I'm just focused on telling the story.”
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“I think for me, the best comedy comes from when something feels real and genuine, so even though Miranda is this wacky character, there is a real vulnerability to her that we finally get to show in 'Haters Back Off,' and I think that's what makes this comedy rich and more fulfilling, at least for me.”
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“Everything was based on my life and the way I grew up. Some of the bits I'm most proud of in 'Haters Back Off' actually happened.”
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“Miranda was built by her haters.”
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“I would do whatever the haters said they didn't like. They'd say, 'I don't like your lipstick,' so I'd put on more.”
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“No matter what you do, you're going to run into haters online. We're not talking about ordinary, disgruntled customers who should be addressed with empathy and understanding. Haters are a breed apart.”
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“Treat haters in your online spaces just the same as you would in the real world. If they're not respectful to you and your customers, kick them out.”
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“I got to fight off haters on a regular basis.”
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“Even going back to the haters, it's messed up what they say, but that's made me stronger, and it's built me into who I am today, and I am completely fine with that.”
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“Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.”
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“All those haters, they don't understand my music. It's very unique. And I don't blame them. Hate my music. But my real cult fanbase, they like the music.”
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“The fact is I'm always going to have naysayers. You're always going to have haters. It really doesn't bother me because I just rise above it.”
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“Obviously I'm going to have haters.”
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“Honestly, it's hard to deal with the haters, but something that has helped me is not to focus on the haters and to focus on the nice people!”
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“I feel like I have my loved ones, but I have a lot of haters, too.”
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“To me, I got a bunch of haters. Mobb Deep - and Prodigy, speaking for myself - I got a bunch of haters.”
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“I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!”
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“I just want to be agreeable; I want to be a pleaser. And that's all I want to do. I want to please the fans or the haters. One or the other.”
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“There are too many haters.”
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“I'm always my toughest critic. I'm setting the expectations for myself, and that's enough pressure. I don't need to worry about the haters or the Twitter trolls or what everybody else thinks.”
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“I had to deal with so many haters.”
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“A lot of haters been downing me but I never gave up and that's what the fans love.”
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“I think it's so cool to just prove haters wrong. All you have to do is go out there and just fight.”
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“I welcome someone who is willing to march to the beat of his own drum - to hell with the haters.”
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“There are always going to be your supporters, and then there are going to be haters. I kind of laugh at them.”
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“Caramelized white chocolate is a mind-blowingly simple and delicious technique that will silence all the alleged white-chocolate haters out there.”
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“Underachiever. Asthmatic. Excuse-maker and fistic faker. My opponents and some other haters have called me all of those things.”
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“This is a big game, and there are a lot of haters in the game. But don't hate me, hate the game.”
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“People know I'm a Jake Paul guy. I respect people who take over the Internet, and this guy has got maybe more haters than I do, which I also love.”
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“You ain't gonna know about me by talking about the past. Haters care about that. My fans, they care about where I'm going.”
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“I went through a difficult time, gaining 24 pounds in one month. A few haters attacked me online for how I looked, even though the majority of my fans were supportive. Those were the ones that kept me going.”
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“Holzhauer Haters' is pretty catchy, but I have not encountered too many haters. I'm sure they are out there, but I don't spend my free time looking up every person's opinion of James Holzhauer.”
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“To my haters: I don't have anything to say to you; you can see how far I've gotten myself. To those who supported me: Thank you, and I will never stop trying to repay you for all of the things you do for me every day.”
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“I'm never gonna please the haters, and I'm not gonna try to.”
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“I had a lot of haters at school, which is a scar I still have.”
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“I don't read anything. I don't read the press. I've always valued my supporters and my haters are supporters in disguise. That's just the way it is. I run a couple of social media accounts and you can't help but look at comments every now and then.”
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“Sometime haters would say or misunderstand how lucky I am to doing what I'm doing, to be healthy and play my sport and passion.”
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“Duke has a lot of haters, but I know it means you're doing something right if they're hating you.”
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“I have an amazing fan base. I also have an amazing amount of haters: believe who don't believe, people who don't want me to succeed. I don't really mind having those people around. If anything it's actually a good thing for me because it keeps me in the gym, keeps me working hard - knowing there are people out there who don't want me to succeed.”
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“I don't care what haters think - I'm proud to not stay in Trump hotels.”
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“With social media, some people are supportive and there are some haters and people who make fake accounts. It's out of my control.”
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“In Hollywood, you serve no wine before it's time, give the haters no time to hate until it's too late.”
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“One lesson I learned with Pomplamoose is that there will always be haters. Part of achieving some level of success is learning to tune out the rage.”
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“There's Mahomes haters and I just don't understand it. I know it's just because he's so good.”