Tendency Quotes

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I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite. — William H. Macy
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was… — Lena Olin
[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them. — William Westney
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its… — Horace Mann
We have tendency to define ourselves in opposition to stuff. But try to also express your passion for things you love. Be demonstrative and generous… — Tim Minchin
When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not bullets and blood.… — Herbie Hancock
People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. — PJ Harvey
...Americans...automatically equate dissension with disloyalty. They view any criticism of our existing social, economic, and political forms, as sedition and subversion. ...(" The growing reluctance… — J. Paul Getty
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency… — Ambrose Bierce
Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers. — John C. Calhoun
I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. — Michael Tolkin
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let… — Michael Scheuer
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and… — Josiah Warren
What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them.… — Aaron Swartz
If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any… — Leon Trotsky
One dictionary that I consulted remarks that "natural history" now commonly means the study of animals and plants "in a popular and superficial way," meaning… — Marston Bates
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do not… — Fulton J. Sheen
Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the… — John Stuart Mill
The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings. — John Stuart Mill
The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages,… — Louis Althusser

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