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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free. — James Dyson
The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the… — Marianne Faithfull
What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don't change. — Harvey Fierstein
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. — Alexander Hamilton
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form. — Hans Hofmann
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences,… — Madeleine M. Kunin
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of… — Joseph Lancaster
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands… — Anthony de Mello
But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that… — David Millar
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. — Colin Powell
Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates. — Nicolas Roeg
I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates. — Eli Roth
Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true… — Salman Rushdie
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty… — Salman Rushdie
Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover,… — Eliot Spitzer
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice,… — Margaret Thatcher
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. — Oscar Wilde
I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the… — Charles Dickens
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live… — Henry David Thoreau
I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at… — Davy Crockett
Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives… — Jeanette Winterson
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of… — Howard Zinn
Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not… — Sarah Dessen
My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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