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Assumed Quotes

What we take for granted, questioned.

These lines explore how a single visit can undo a long-held assumption, like picturing an entire country from one coastal town before ever seeing its capital city.

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America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

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When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

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I kind of assumed all of Australia was like the Gold Coast - so I was telling people Australians just work out and go to the beach. Like, Australia has it figured out! But then I went to Sydney, and...

Quotes by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

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As African-Americans, we don't start with a blank slate, while other people may. In our position, there's always some sort of stereotype that is being scrutinized or that is being assumed when we come through the curtain.

Quotes by Xavier Woods

Always Quotes

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That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

Quotes by William Blake

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I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

Quotes by Whitney Cummings

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Nobody ever told us all matter radiated. We just assumed it did.

Quotes by Vera Rubin

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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Quotes by V. S. Pritchett

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Sometimes, if you don't have kids yourself, it's assumed you won't understand or know how to play a mom, which is kind of silly if you think about it.

Quotes by Tricia Helfer

Good Quotes

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There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!

Quotes by Torrey DeVitto

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