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• I don't have great thighs. I have very big breasts and a soft, fatty little tummy. And I've got back fat. People assume that I'm walking around in little spaghetti-strap dresses. It's insidious - Glam Jamie, the Perfect Jamie, the great figure, blah, blah, blah. And I don't want the unsuspecting 40-year-old women of the world to think that I've got it going on. It's such a fraud. And I'm the one perpetuating it.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Thinking, Years, People

  " Is this a feminist statement?" by Muriel Gray, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2002.

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• Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

  Gertrude Stein

  Position

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.70, Taylor & Francis

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• I am a feminist and I am totally pro-choice, but what's funny is when you say that people assume that you are pro-abortion. I don't love abortion but I want women to be able to choose and I don't want white dudes in an office being able to make laws on things like this. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?

  Ellen Page

  Mean, White, Clothes

  "Ellen Page: 'I'm totally pro-choice. I mean what are we going to do – go back to clothes hangers?'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

  Noel Fielding

  People, Mad, Imagination

  "Noel Fielding: 'Oh God, I've got a Peter Pan complex, haven't I?'". Interview With Rhik Samadder, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2014.

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• Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely, and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it. Just stand there trembling, not moving. Assuming the worst that can happen. Or we step forward into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.

  Sandra Oh

  Moving, Choices, Yang

  "Fictional character: Dr. Cristina Yang". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Fear (of the Unknown)", 2014), (2005 - ).

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• We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause.  They are here to save our lives.

  Emma Thompson

  Anomalies, Nuance, Causes

  "Fictional character: Karen P. Eiffel". "Stranger Than Fiction", 2006.

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• We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

  Michio Kaku

  Years, Brain, Mind

  Michio Kaku (2014). “The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.

  Kanye West

  White, Age, Nucleus

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.

  Ron Paul

  Thinking, Cities, Justice

  Ron Paul's newsletter (1992), as quoted in "10 Extreme Claims in Ron Paul’s Controversial Newsletters" by Andy Kroll, www.motherjones.com. January 3, 2012.

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• It’s not part of our Constitution to assume that we are the world’s policemen.

  Ron Paul

  World, Constitution, Policemen

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• Please stop assuming that longevity and perfect health is always the correct option. No. Sometimes fun costs ya. It just does, you know? And that's OK, you're willing to make that purchase. Sammy Davis, Jr. was 64 when he died. Give me 64 Sammy-years, I'll be happy.

  Bill Maher

  Fun, Years, Perfect

  "Bill Maher: Be More Cynical". Comedy, 2000.

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• Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Fighting, Issues, People

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• I would assume everybody thinks they are a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.

  Joe Flacco

  Jobs, Successful, Thinking

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• I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Mean, Trouble, Claims

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.51, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do not wait for enough time or money to accomplish what you think you have in mind. Work with what you have right now. Work with the people around you right now…. Do not wait for what you assume is the appropriate, stress-free environment in which to generate expression…. Do not wait till you are sure that you know what you are doing…. What you do now, what you make of your present circumstances, will determine the quality and scope of your future endeavors.

  Anne Bogart

  Stress, Thinking, Expression

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• Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Mean, Use, Sometimes

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• One of the things that makes it so challenging is that we're constructing the Station hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth and we're doing it one piece at a time For the International Space Station we do not have the privilege of assuming the Space Station is on the ground before we take it up one piece at a time. So we have to be very clever about the testing that we do and the training that we do to make sure that each mission is successful, and that each piece and each mission goes just as it's planned.

  Tamara E. Jernigan

  Clever, Successful, Space

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• It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds.

  Kristian Birkeland

  Views, Ions, Space

  Kristian Birkeland (1908). “The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902-1903”

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• If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!

  Bill Buxton

  Technology, Impact, Years

  Bill Buxton (2010). “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”, p.215, Morgan Kaufmann

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• In today's disposable culture, we throw away people like we do razors, always assuming there's someone better out there to hang out with, or to work for- people who will never embarrass us, let us down or offend us.

  Kelly Cutrone

  People, Culture, Razors

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• My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave a year before and assume that's who I still am. But usually I've changed altogether.

  Takeshi Kaneshiro

  Thinking, Years, People

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• What I don’t like are arrogant people. We’re all equal. I don’t like it when a person assumes to be better. It angers me a little. There are a lot of people like that, but the world keeps turning. I also don’t like lies. I’m very honest. I’m always going to tell the truth. I don’t lie. I treat my friends the way I want to be treated.

  Selena

  Lying, People, Arrogant

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• Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Inspirational, Believe, Reality

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• The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Views, Class

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.

  Horace Bushnell

  Lonely, Plato, New Beginnings

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.60, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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