#assume

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#assume #california #culture #dig #equipment

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

#assumes #bad #become #change #executive

A typical practice consists of practicing every event for about an hour. A lot of people assume I have private coaching, but I work out with 13 other girls at the gym! ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#assume #coaching #consists #event #every

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#bit #celebrities #easy #endure #hardship

Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time. ↗

— Jack Kilby

#assume #basically #begin #cut #got

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#actually #assume #audience #because #become

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#along #assume #begun #community #dialogue

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#defeat #france #full #i #must

For me, the game would be to assume a very intelligent reader who can extrapolate a lot from a little. And that's become my definition of art; to get that pitch just right, where I can put a hint on page three, and the reader's ears go up a bit, as opposed to dropping it all on the first page. ↗

— George Saunders

#assume #become #bit #definition #dropping

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#computers #different #each #everything #good