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I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet. -- Jon Postel
Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned. -- Linda Tripp
I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me. -- Mercedes McCambridge
So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. -- Sally Ride
Nothing was given to me, nothing was entrusted to me, nothing was assigned to me. Everything I have, I took by right. -- Francois Hollande
Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. -- Theodor Adorno
Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible. -- Charley Reese
If we look at the way the universe behaves, quantum mechanics gives us fundamental, unavoidable indeterminacy, so that alternative histories of the universe can be assigned probability. -- Murray Gell-Mann
Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government. -- Richard M. Nixon
My walk is a public one. My business is in the world, and I must mix in the assemblies of men or quit the post which Providence seems to have assigned me. -- William Wilberforce
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you. -- Orison Swett Marden
I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service. -- Buzz Aldrin
What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it's not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, 'Hey, I can't really figure those things out.' -- Bill Gates
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid. -- Jill Lepore
Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school. -- Bill Gates
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. -- John Henrik Clarke
The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy. -- Imre Kertesz
Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and, when needed, to lead travelers to safety. Our most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child's life to put feet firmly on the path home. -- Henry B. Eyring
Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos. -- Walter Kirn
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. -- Gunter Grass
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people. -- Paul Di Filippo
When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull. -- Junior Seau
There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that. -- Patton Oswalt
I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago. -- Jack Adams
When blame has been assigned, the story is over. -- Charles Baxter
Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it. -- Phil McGraw
I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned. -- Alfred the Great
Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned. -- Mike Murdock
Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter. -- Walt Disney
When God has assigned you, He knows where and when to find you. -- Christine Caine
Attacks of divine transports are of pride and I accept the part assigned. -- Elizabeth Barton
True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence. -- John C. Maxwell
A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it's necessarily not a priority. -- Merlin Mann
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. -- Nellie Bly
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. -- Fred Brooks
Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment. -- Alan Cohen
Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist. -- H. L. Mencken
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. -- Peter De Vries
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself. -- Marcus Aurelius
I was assigned boy at birth but I have always known I was a girl. -- Geena Rocero
Only you can impact the world in the way that God uniquely assigned to you. -- Rich Nathan
I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. -- Anthony Braxton
Education can get you the only thing that really matters in today's world--an assigned parking space. -- Gene Perret
The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination. -- Carlos Santana
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true. -- Christiane Amanpour
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions. -- Eugene H. Peterson
You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table. -- Greg Kinnear
To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience. -- Jake Lodwick
We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. -- Marianne Williamson
The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet. -- Ava DuVernay
The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group. -- Gerd von Rundstedt
What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else -- Epictetus
Stay focus on what God has assigned me to do. Keep my mind on what I am doing/ -- John C. Maxwell
As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender. -- Chaz Bono
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies. -- George Santayana
No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies. -- Rusty Schweickart
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. -- Edmund Burke
The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels. -- Vicente Fox
Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty. -- Susan Sontag
The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one. -- David Hume
Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her. -- Billy Graham
Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same. -- Isaac Newton
If you do not do your God-assigned task, throughout eternity there will be a job that has never been done. -- Bob Jones, Sr.
The meaning of service is to do the work assigned ungrudgingly and without thought of personal reward material or moral. -- D.T. Suzuki
Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie. -- Bertolt Brecht
I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed. -- Ken Starr
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Leading: Superlative leaders are fully equipped to deliver in destiny; they locate eternally assigned destines. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned. -- Hugh Shelton
I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no place there. -- John Eisenhower
Players have to buy into your system and be willing to accept the role, you, as the coach, have assigned to them -- Chuck Daly
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. -- John Barth
In one study, old people assigned to a geriatrics team stayed independent for far longer, and were admitted to the hospital less. -- Atul Gawande
Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not. -- Niki Tsongas
I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers. -- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings. -- Richard Diebenkorn
Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him. -- Marcus Aurelius
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. -- Charles Saatchi
It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
It's "a 'disorder of "assumption"' - the notion that their maleness or femaleness is different than what nature assigned to them biologically. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties. -- Dallin H. Oaks
Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves. -- James Redfield
Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate. -- Samuel Johnson
It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day. -- James A. Baldwin
A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured. -- Charles Francis Richter
Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat. -- Abraham Lincoln
Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. -- Kathryn Bigelow
You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them. -- Esther Hicks
No matter how entrenched in the imagination of the average Christian the image of a male God might be, theological tradition has never assigned sex to God. -- Sandra Marie Schneiders
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us. -- Alexis Carrel
I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes. -- Lynsey Addario
I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels. -- Lauren Willig
I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance. -- Julie Payette
I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money. -- Warren Spector
This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific study of ancient faiths. -- William Robertson Smith
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we've resisted, Our places are assigned. -- Benjamin Whichcote
The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul. -- Uwe Reinhardt
I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone. -- Christian de Duve
During the time I have had WACs under my command, they have met every test and task assigned to them...their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life. -- Lynda Barry
The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial. -- Victor Turner
What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us? -- Jeremy Collier
The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince. -- Franz Grillparzer
What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator. -- Adolf Hitler
Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight. -- Sally Ride
We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues. -- Hannah More
The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi. -- Martin Van Buren
I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' are two of my favorite ones. -- Spencer Boldman
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat. -- Henrik Ibsen
Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet. -- Chet Huntley
The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life -- Patrick Henry
Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979. -- Karen Joy Fowler
I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me. -- Saffron Burrows
Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted. -- Hooman Majd
Paco Fuentes, " Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat. -- Simone Elkeles
Hugh Everett's work has been described by many people in terms of many worlds, the idea being that every one of the various alternative histories, branching histories, is assigned some sort of reality. -- Murray Gell-Mann

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