#dictate

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it. ↗

— Maya Lin

#come #conclusions #dictate #lost #own

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that. ↗

— David Lloyd

#am #artists #because #board #conventions

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#dictate #duty #hallowed #honor #ought

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

The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#country #dictates #every #our #policy

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

— Christopher Morley

#dictated #signed #theology #universe

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#ignorance #itself #obeys #reason #submits

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#apology #began #begin #dictated #dictators

It's kind of true that they just start making the same movie over and over again. It's also true that the times dictate what kind of movies get made and what kind are not. So I'm always looking for something that's a little fresh and something that I haven't seen before. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#also #always #before #dictate #fresh

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman