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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. bell hooks

Life Ignorance Will Somebody My Life Down Else Someone Bow Whim

The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That's why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator's whim. David Ignatius

Government Passion Tyranny King Guard Framers Our System Hated Excess Put Checks Checks And Balances Also Balances George Were Mob Dictator Inflamed Afraid Against Whim Public Might Many Why

I choose not to be at the whim of others. I want to be at my own whim. Michael Keaton

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Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. Alice Foote MacDougall

Success Almost Absurd Come She Because Least Erratic Depart Expects May After Again Whim Success Is Her Thing

Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness. Alice Morse Earle

Increase Other Out Architect Supervision Intelligent Than Being Laid Whim Then Should Landscape Reason Even Gardens

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the pet at whim. There is a lack of self-consciousness and a fluidity to it that is absent from most human relationships. If someone acted that way to you, you'd feel claustrophobic pretty quickly. It's a boundary violation. Caroline Knapp

You Dog Pet Fluidity Relationships Way Kinds Pretty Someone Touch Claustrophobic Absent Self-Consciousness Feel Boundary Come Most Dogs Quickly Roles Lack Human Whim Acted Hard Human Relationships Fill Violation

Being solo really lends itself to different interpretations - and everything is in the moment and on a whim. I never realised how far out you can go when you are by yourself. Chris Cornell

You Yourself Everything Out Solo Never How How Far Go Itself Being Different Realised Whim Lends Far Really Moment Interpretations

All of the best songs happen on a whim. Diplo

Best Songs Happen Whim

I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive. Ellie Goulding

Love Will Alexander Only Stuff Like Expensive Whim Much Designer

I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs. Gautham Menon

Worrying Plot About Write Points Without Whim Scripts

The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim. Henry Fielding

Characteristic Governed Affectation Whim

I wrote 'Zeuglodon' on a whim. I found myself writing the voice of an 11-year-old girl. I don't know why. James Blaylock

Myself Writing Girl Voice Know Wrote Whim Found Why

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode. James Fenton

Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go on; they excel at predicting things like horse races, election outcomes, and box-office results. But they're bad at predicting things like who will be the next Supreme Court nominee, as that depends on the whim of the president. James Surowiecki

Work Best Election Will President Markets Bad Outcomes Record Excel Horse Results Like Supreme Nominee Supreme Court Track Track Record Court Go Lots Historical Depends Information Predicting Whim Available Races Next Who Things

I had been doing plays in New York and on a whim we packed up and moved West, I started doing commercials and plays and guest star spots on TV and one thing led to another and I got Knots Landing. Joan Van Ark

Guest Guest Star TV One Thing Had New Knots Knots Landing Another Spots Got Doing Been West Led Up Commercials York Moved New York Whim Packed Landing Star Thing Started Plays

I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought. Kabir Bedi

I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was going to Barcelona on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream Team Quarterfinals. Mark Cuban

Airlines Dream Memorable Lifetime Had Blast Bought Most Tickets Pass American Going Whim Barcelona Team Olympics

Yes, my pageant career was incredibly short. I started at 19 and was done at 21. I started by competing for Miss California Teen, which I wound up winning, and I literally just entered the contest on a whim! Meagan Tandy

There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content. Nick Kroll

Great You Waiting People Feeling Own Others Incredibly Find Admiration Constantly My Own Cast Idea Powerless Content Understand Been Frightening Get Trying Just Being Whim Create Who Actor Why

Not many foreigners move to Paris for their dream job. Many do it on a romantic whim. Pamela Druckerman

Job Dream Paris Foreigners Move Romantic Whim Many

The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can't plan as an actor; there's no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people's choices and decisions that you're at the whim of fate, really. Ruth Negga

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