Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
I've never bribed my way into a restaurant. I've never slipped a C-note or greased a palm. In truth, I've never even… — David Chang Copy Share Image
Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth.… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked… — Raymond Bonner Copy Share Image
Even before I got on 'SNL' I assumed I would do some type of sitcom; I kind of thought that was how… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial… — Karl Ferdinand Braun Copy Share Image
Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me… — Steve McQueen Copy Share Image
Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably… — Becky G Copy Share Image
I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
