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- Nov 07, 2020
Assumes Quotes
On the quiet assumptions behind ambition, risk, and order.
This collection looks at what people and systems assume without saying so, from entrepreneurs accepting risk to entire economic theories built on hidden premises. One even ties creative drama to the order it later disrupts. Related reflections continue in our Character collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a mistake to try and overthink how you are going to be received, because that assumes that you are going to be received in the first place.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone assumes we're always going to have a cocktail and a cigarette in hand. Fans expect us all to be dressed up all the time. They always say to me, 'You look so young. You don't seem as tall!'
- Church
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The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.
- Average American
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average person assumes that you're a drag queen so you're a nelly and you want to be a girl, which is not the case, and I think Drag Race has changed that for us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something like 'Psycho,' which is this psychological thing that slowly, slowly, slowly builds, and actually it's a much more powerful reaction you have when it assumes that you're intelligent as you're watching it. I want them to make me believe that whatever's happening could really happen, and then it becomes much more frightening.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020