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A lot people who hear that 'Go New York Go' assume that I must be black.
Jesse Itzler
People
Black
Assume
Must
New
Go
Hear
Lot
York
New York
Who
I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?
Jessica Biel
Funny
People
Comedy
Girl
Assume
Never
Like
Most
Because
Gotten
Fit
Maybe
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
I learned a long time ago that advice is a quick trip to nowhere. It's the commitment that only you can make in yourself, the responsibility to assume control of yourself.
Jim Brown
Time
You
Commitment
Yourself
Responsibility
Long
Long Time
Advice
Control
Assume
Trip
Only
Long Time Ago
Make
Learned
Quick
Nowhere
When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The phrase doesn't exist anywhere in Darwin's first edition of 'Origin of the Species.'
Joel A. Barker
Survival
First
Assume
Phrase
Charles
Darwin
Most
Edition
Hear
Exist
Fittest
Did
Anywhere
Us
Origin
Originated
Species
People assume that because you have graced the same stage as the star act, in front of thousands, you must be reaping similar financial rewards. This is a complete fallacy.
John Barrow
You
People
Financial
Stage
Assume
Complete
Must
Thousands
Similar
Because
Fallacy
Same
Front
Rewards
Act
Reaping
Star
People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
John Diamond
Death
Me
People
Perspective
Assume
Would
Allow
Put
Head
Over
How
Hanging
Works
Things
Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?
John Hutton
Good
People
Simple
Some People
Assume
Local
Those
Response
Favour
Some
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
Argue
Exclusive
Concepts
Limit
Choice
Should
Why
Services
Two
Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.
John Ortberg
Sometimes
Will
Somebody
Superior
Spirituality
Become
Assume
Others
Churches
Seek
Recruit
No-One
Vein
Particular
Like
Because
Discover
Wants
Them
Certain
Found
Actually
Techniques
Position
When you're getting to do what you want to do, you just assume you're going to hit a point where someone is like, 'No, you can't do that.' Strangely, that never happened.
Jon Watts
You
Assume
Someone
Point
Never
Like
Hit
Getting
Going
Just
Where
Want
Happened
Strangely
I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.
Jonah Hill
Me
You
Culture
Book
People
Think
Assume
Our
No Intention
Only
Write
Because
Making
Gotten
Making Movies
Celebrity
Intention
Being
Want
Movies
Skewed
Exploit
Your
Actor
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Life
Funny
Me
Disappointment
People
Inevitable
Real Life
Assume
Funny People
Meeting
Books
Because
Real
People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot.
Jose Antonio Vargas
You
People
Think
Assume
Say
Some
Sort
Course
Korean
Hispanic
Lot
Get
Oh
Chinese
Gonna
Really
Filipino
Actually
I would never assume to tell another actor how to do his job!
Joseph Morgan
Job
Assume
Tell
Would
Never
Another
How
His
Actor
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
Joseph Sobran
Government
Active
Assume
Fathers
Citizens
Critics
Most
Sort
Contented
Makes
Expected
American
Being
Might
Far
Founding
Founding Fathers
Right
I never assume anyone will see or like things I do, honestly!
Josh Gondelman
Will
Assume
Honestly
See
Never
Like
Anyone
Things
People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.
Joshua Oppenheimer
People
Fear
Assume
Our
About
Purpose
Documentary
Historical
May
Happened
Regime
Act
Expose
Present-Day
I swear to formally assume the national executive powers as acting president.
Juan Guaido
National
Assume
President
Powers
Executive
Swear
Acting
There are only so many hilarious actors so when they cross-pollinate, people assume it's always the same actors and directors.
Judd Apatow
People
Hilarious
Assume
Only
Directors
Always
Same
Many
Actor
I'm not the world's best mother, though kids always assume I must be.
Judy Blume
Best
World
Mother
Assume
Though
Kids
Must
Always
People are going to assume whatever they want to assume.
Julia Michaels
People
Whatever
Assume
Going
Want
It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else's.
Julian Treasure
You
Mistake
Listening
Assume
Else
Everyone
Fingerprints
Like
Listens
Your
Unique
Music is an expression of who you are, and - at least in that sense - I think I epitomize Black Lives Matter. I'm a big black man, and I'm easily misunderstood. Before I started wearing these African clothes, people would assume that I was a threat and that it was O.K. to be violent toward me.
Kamasi Washington
Music
Me
You
Man
People
Matter
Black
Big
Before
Clothes
Sense
Think
Assume
Easily
Would
Threat
Wearing
Toward
Misunderstood
Least
African
Who
Expression
Lives
Started
Violent
I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
Karen Joy Fowler
People
Own
Translation
Assume
Other
Our
Kind
Only
Through
Understand
Limited
Brains
Closer
Experiences
Them
Us
Creatures
Brings
I'm a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it's been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain.
Karen Salmansohn
People
Assume
Meditation
Changes
Some
Buddhist
Know
Documented
Scientifically
Been
Brain
Lots
Huge
Huge Fan
Fan
Create
Therapeutic
People automatically assume that because you're an actor, you're a blank canvas 24/7. But I can't wear what everyone else wears. If I went to an audition, I'd wear what the character would wear, but the moment I'm done with the audition or done filming, I go back into my high-waisteds.
Kat Graham
Character
You
People
Assume
Else
Back
Everyone
Everyone Else
Would
Wear
Wears
Blank
Blank Canvas
Because
Audition
Go
Done
Automatically
Canvas
Moment
Actor
Filming
People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
Kate Adie
War
Me
People
Assume
Seem
Only
Costume
Driver
Support
Always
Cameraman
War Zone
Full
Team
Zone
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