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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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- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just assumed that a horror sequel is going to be bad. It's never going to be as good as the first one.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no aspirations after wrestling. I truly just assumed I would retire, grow a big beard, sit on my deck, and figure out what was next. If it was nothing, I was OK with that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I was always getting into risky situations with the potential to hurt myself, but mum and dad never stopped me doing what I wanted to do, and they assumed that if I fell and hurt myself, I would learn from that and maybe not do it again.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mom got very heated about the new government policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In her view it was going to allow closeted gay people into her military and she was really against it... she just assumed I agreed with her opinions.
- Complexities
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American, and I'm a dual-threat quarterback.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never assumed that I would be able to play in a main draw so quickly after Juniors. I've been having really good results. It really is a privilege. I'm very happy for the opportunity.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always assumed that by 40 I'd have at least a modicum of stability - a steady income, an established career, a bountiful fullness, like a pillow into which I could sink as I entered the second half of my life.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area as you can get. I always assumed I was going to be an actor. I don't know why. I didn't have any reason to think that. In fact, when I finally did try it, when I was in college, I was really bad at it and didn't enjoy it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After being raised as an evangelical Christian, I for years assumed that Christianity was the default - there were Christians, and then there were weirdos. I was shocked when, in college, I found that some people get offended when you tell them, for instance, that their recovery from surgery was a 'miracle.'
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
When, you know, when Nic became addicted, I was completely uneducated, and basically everything I assumed at the time turned out to be wrong. I guess the main thing is that I was so blindsided, that I had this idea of, you know, what an addict looks like, and it didn't look like Nic. And I realized that, you know, anybody can become addicted.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020