#dictated

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

— Christopher Morley

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

— Rob Zombie

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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

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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. ↗

— Dario Argento

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

— Holly Near

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