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209 Dictates quotes by 184 unique authors
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The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
— James Dyson
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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
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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
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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
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
— Hans Hofmann
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
— Colin Powell
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Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.
— Nicolas Roeg
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I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.
— Eli Roth
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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