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- Nov 07, 2020
Assumed Quotes
What we take for granted, questioned.
These lines explore how a single visit can undo a long-held assumption, like picturing an entire country from one coastal town before ever seeing its capital city.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People assumed that I wasn't open to doing TV, probably because I was doing a film and reality shows. I have become choosy and want to take up substantial roles.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my book for adults and assumed only adults, and possibly teenagers, would be drawn to it.
- Blinded
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It turned out, my own stories were the ones that registered with people the hardest.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using static scoring, tax cuts are broadly assumed to 'cost' a raw amount of reduced revenue. With dynamic scoring, the new revenue likely to flow from increased economic activity produced by a tax cut is considered, improving the accuracy of the projection.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I assumed when I was first selling the franchises that everyone would be as excited as I was to wake up in the morning to bake bread and slice vegetables.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought I was a good person, a decent person. I never harassed anyone or touched anyone. And you say to yourself , 'Oh, that's good enough,' but yes, I had certain jokes that I always assumed the audience would understand. This is Persona.
- Exceeded
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- Nov 07, 2020