Quotes with assumed

  • I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.

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  • Barney Frank Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Alan Bennett Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Casey Wilson Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how I would start. I don't mean to sound arrogant - I just thought I would be best suited to the form.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Bill Buford For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Bea Arthur I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Bill Dedman In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Billie Jean King It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Betty Buckley It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • George Santayana That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • William Blake That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • E. B. White The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • John Foster Dulles 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.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • V. S. Pritchett Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • George Washington When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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