#dictated

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#above #against #being #dictated #ducks

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. ↗

— Chris Evans

#dictated #explore #going #happiness #i

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#environment #existence #fixed #interpreting #just

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds? ↗

— Albert Claude

#also #behavior #bringing #cells #come

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#certainly #company #dictated #enough #fans

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#absolutely #bless #bush #century #dictated

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. ↗

— Edward Koch

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I can never consent to being dictated to. ↗

— John Tyler

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But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. ↗

— Chris Evans

#dictated #going #happiness #level #never