Quotes with assume

  • Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
  • Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
  • Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
  • There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
  • We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
  • It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.
  • It is funny that people always assume you have a bigger part in a movie than you actually do. I remember a lot of people thought 'Adventureland' starred me and Kristen Wiig. But we were like, 'No, we're only in the movie for like ten minutes!'
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Heywood Broun The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • James Baldwin A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Bobbi Brown As a makeup artist, I learned quickly that the color of your lips affects the way a lipstick looks. If you see your friend wearing a great color, don't assume it will be right for you.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • William Shakespeare Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
    Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Caitlin Doughty Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bun E. Carlos Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Angela Davis But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Gerald Ford But I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances never before experienced by Americans. This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.
    Inauguratie 09-08-1974
    Gerald Ford
    president of the United States from 1974 to 1977 (1913 - 2006)
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  • Alan Bennett Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Cate Blanchett Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Brad Bird Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Dave Barry Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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