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A shoe is not only a design, but it's a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you're going to move… — Christian Louboutin
People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media. — John Lydon
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. — Mary McCarthy
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. — Christopher Morley
I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture. — Holly Near
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. — Thomas Paine
It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street. — Rick Perry
Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. — Marcel Proust
I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No… — Mitt Romney
I can never consent to being dictated to. — John Tyler
Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. — Rob Zombie
You can't let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you. — Greg Graffin
We will not be dictated to by men with less intelligence, energy, initiative and ambition than we ourselves possess. — Elbert Hubbard
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an… — Aldous Huxley
That wind. I see it's blowing now. Furtive but commanding, it has dictated every move we've ever made. My mother felt it, and so do… — Joanne Harris
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"… — Edward Said
What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more… — David Foster Wallace
Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order — Tom Stoppard
I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what… — Nicholas Sparks
It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can so… — Julia Cameron
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting… — Neal Stephenson
He rose, offering his hand to Evanlyn to assist her. Even though she was lithe and athletic as a cat, she took it, enjoying the… — John Flanagan
The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes… — Aldous Huxley
Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it. Dictated the rhythm with which their bodies answered each other. As though they already knew that for each… — Arundhati Roy
Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats. — Gail Carriger

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