#dictated

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. ↗

— Rob Zombie

#dictated #expectations #feel #like #once

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#because #being #costume #dictated #directors

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

— John Surtees

#because #contracts #dictated #driver #other

I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

#dictated #fashion #feeling #find #i

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

— Thomas Paine

#ignorance #itself #obeys #reason #submits

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance. ↗

— Ron Jaworski

#baggage #chance #character #coaches #dictated

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#dictated #ethical #even #honorable #military

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

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor. ↗

— Charles M. Schwab

#having #i #labor #management #position

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them. ↗

— Ted Shackelford

#decisions #dictated #go #make #quick