#dictate

Political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bloggers #briefings #correspondents #day #days

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#approach #battle #dictated #era #fearlessness

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts. ↗

— John Surtees

#because #contracts #dictated #driver #other

I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully. ↗

— Spike Lee

#i #stevie #stevie wonder #successfully #wonder

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#been #century #change #dictated #historian

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. ↗

— John Mayall

#dictates #goes #i #i write #mood

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#dictated #signed #theology #universe

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture. ↗

— Holly Near

#culture #dictated #dominant #i #perspective

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#ancient rome #better #considered #dictate #foolish

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people. ↗

— Prince

#dictate #everything #other #people #who