You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.
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.
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him
I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise.
Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.
I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
We assume, falsely, that how we feel now is how we will feel in the future
Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living at close quarters with the very vice which he himself has been most outspoken in condemning -- without altogether recognizing it beneath the disguise of ambiguous behavior which it assumes in his presence.
When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults. . . They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
We all assume the worst the best we can.
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.
The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.