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Assuming roles is something that simply won't work for me, since I don't have a style. None at all. -- Martin Kippenberger
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. -- Pat Paulsen
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. -- George Orwell
I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. -- John Mayer
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through. -- Adam Rickitt
Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels. -- Dennis Miller
I shall assume that your silence gives consent. -- Plato
Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. -- Lester Bangs
I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise. -- Gustav Mahler
Assuming the chairmanship of ASEAN isn't going to do anything about improving the lives of people. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Assuming that women don't like football and that men aren't intersted in home decorating and cooking. -- Paulo Coelho
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. -- George Orwell
I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it. -- Victoria Woodhull
Assuming I'm home and don't have an event, I'll have a massage or I'll talk on the phone. -- Donna Karan
Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead. -- Simon Cowell
Assuming a specific resource is high cost is often a path to disruption when someone makes a different assumption. -- Steven Sinofsky
We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone. -- Richard Hugo
Assuming that just because you can hear you can listen is like assuming that just because you can see you can read. -- Tony Alessandra
Assuming there is an intellect, we're clearly not this universal intellect or we would know it. So that's one function of soul. -- Peter Adamson
The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they're evil - I think it's a terrible thing to do. -- Alan Dershowitz
Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources. -- Martin Van Creveld
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -- Anne Lamott
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. -- Milton Friedman
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery. -- Eugen Herrigel
One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy. -- Imran Khan
Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong. -- Paulo Coelho
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 Hammarskjold
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. -- Leo Tolstoy
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same. -- Harvey Pekar
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. -- Thomas Sowell
I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am. -- Henry J. Kaiser
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions. -- Stephen Covey
We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. -- Max Planck
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. -- Vernon Howard
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. -- Max Planck
Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success? -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it? -- Albert J. Nock
Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too. -- Marilyn vos Savant
The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more likely, for shock. To live well, to be mentally healthy, we must learn to realize that life is a work in process. -- Joan D. Chittister
To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor. -- Mark Hulbert
[The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons. -- John Daly
Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I'll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don't "? well, I think I've cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don't know that they've got a daughter, you see. -- J. K. Rowling
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. -- Loren Eiseley
This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me. -- Cher Lloyd
Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer. -- Vidal Sassoon
I'm just trying to get rid of all the mystery surrounding me and let people see what I'm thinking. So they can understand me and stop assuming things about me. -- Juliana Hatfield
The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. -- Alonzo Church
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross? -- Saint Bernard
True respect means taking other people's beliefs seriously and assuming they are adult and intelligent enough to be able to cope with it if you tell them, clearly and civility, why you think they are totally, utterly and disastrously wrong. -- Julian Baggini
We should govern our actions by assuming that people are more good than bad. Whereas, most of our social policies dictate that people are more bad than good. That you know if you do something, it'll be seized by the rich to exploit the poor. -- James D. Watson
An awful lot of fantasy, and even some great fantasy, falls into the mistake of assuming that a good man will be a good king, that all that is necessary is to be a decent human being and when you're king everything will go swimmingly. -- George R. R. Martin
I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things. -- Famke Janssen
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded. -- Suze Orman
Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia. -- Piers Anthony
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. -- Al Gore
My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions. -- Karl Kraus
Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anne Frank
WARNING: This is assuming your spouse's name is Margaret. -- Dave Barry
You cannot talk about evil without assuming a moral framework. -- Ravi Zacharias
If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'm assuming those are Daimons. (Susan) No, they're Avon ladies. (Ravyn) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical. -- Jonathan Tropper
And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious. -- Ned Vizzini
Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found. -- William Macneile Dixon
He's a smart man, so I am assuming he will do it. -- Michael Newdow
Christianity does not set faith against thinking. It sets faith against assuming. -- Timothy Keller
Government does not grow by seizing our freedoms, but by assuming our responsibilities. -- Mike Cloud
Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined. -- Roxane Gay
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Instead of assuming everything you're being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions. -- Barbara Corcoran
We'd all be alot happier if we'd stop assuming we're supposed to be happy. -- Garrison Keillor
Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation. -- Robert Breault
People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. -- John Steinbeck
Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots. -- Jeremy Paxman
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them -- Stephen Covey
I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish. -- Kenneth Lonergan
The way you lose the gospel is not by denying it, but by assuming it. -- D. A. Carson
My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes. -- Jennifer Echols
The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it. -- Mike Norton
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. -- John Cassavetes
I believe 'assuming' should be left for professionals. Amateurs should just stand by and seek the truth. -- Evelyn Leilou Colon
The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason. -- Louis Kronenberger
We argued about how hard it would be to ride a bear, assuming said bear was muzzled. -- Chuck Klosterman
Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you. -- Kellyanne Conway
[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun. -- Josephine de Beauharnais
No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting. -- Megan Fox
I grew up assuming that I would be in public service. I never planned to be in business. -- Chris Whittle
Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy. -- P. J. Plauger
We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all. -- Donald M. Nelson
Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong. -- Elbert Hubbard
Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation. -- William Jennings Bryan
In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one. -- Herbert Spencer
New Yorkers have a delightfully narcissistic habit of assuming that if they're not conscious of a scene, it doesn't exist. -- Sloane Crosley
Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility. -- Li Keqiang
People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk. -- Will Evans
You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed. -- Steven Soderbergh
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that. -- Steven Moffat
Whenever you write, whatever you write, never make the mistake of assuming the audience is any less intelligent than you are. -- Rod Serling
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. -- Wendy Wasserstein
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much. -- Brandon Sanderson
The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
A lot of us spend our lives assuming we are going to get around to those things we want to do. -- Sean Patrick Maloney
Start by assuming the market is always wrong, so if you copy everybody else on Wall Street, you're doomed to do poorly. -- George Soros
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him -- Baroness Orczy
The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy. -- Thomas Sowell
No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is. -- Julian Baggini
Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure. -- Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. -- Jan de Hartog

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