- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attributed Quotes
What we credit to costume, faith, and character
These attributed quotes consider how a costume can shield the person wearing it, letting success or failure be attributed to the disguise rather than the individual. See Change quotes for related themes.
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- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always attributed my abilities to play football and, really, all other skills and attributes, to God.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's sad that many don't realise the need for consent in relationships, and this can be attributed to lack of education, male chauvinism and lack of open mindedness.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the most part, I would say that I have always had a great love for the sport, just doing what I do. I think my success could be greatly attributed to that. I don't look at it like it's a job or anything like that. Its more like a hobby, something I have fun doing.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rise of populism is in part a response to stagnating incomes and job loss, owing mostly to new technologies but widely attributed to imports and immigrants.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
- Conventional Wisdom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The so-called oligarchs have always had less influence than conventional wisdom attributed to them.
- Flower
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity.
- Bus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.
- Columns
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- Nov 07, 2020
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020