Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Dictate Quotes from famous persons: Ewan McGregor, Debbie Rowe, Kyrsten Sinema, Sammi Giancola, Jeff Buckley. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Dictate Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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The framers never intended an infinitely broad Commerce Clause that would let Congress dictate individuals‘ purchases.
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Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.
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Robotic toys can be very interesting, but it is important that the toy not ‘dictate’ how the child should play with it. Rather, it should take its cues from the child and enhance, teach, and enrich the play experience. We incorporated some of these features into a robotic baby doll we built for Hasbro in 1999.
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Communities and workers should be partners at the table, not waiting on the sidelines while government and the fossil fuel industry dictate climate policy.
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Our job is not to dictate the policies of our candidates or even influence them but simply to articulate them in the most clear and meaningful way to the relevant audience.
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It is not O.K. for one sovereignty to dictate to another which countries or organizations it may associate with.
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In the locker room, and when I’m with my friends, we use racial slurs… What I do with my black friends is not up to white America to dictate to me what’s appropriate and inappropriate.
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Ultimately, entertainment and all the tangents related to it, will come down to one little gadget in our pockets, which is our mobile phones. And such will be the impact of this that they will not just influence but even dictate the content of all the other mediums of entertainment.
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If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
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Using modern guitar techniques and modern methods on an early instrument is not a very clever thing to do, because it is the authentic spirit of the instrument that should dictate the quality and characteristic of the sound.
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I do not want to make art and then try to dictate how people use it, or how people interact with it.
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What information you see doesn’t dictate what you think or believe. I think it’s crazy to think that.
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I won‘t be allowing my own background or my own sexual orientation to dictate the decisions that I make.
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I’d like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.
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I have always believed that my life is more important than my profession and I have never ever allowed my profession to dictate my life.
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White America don’t get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.
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Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way. Try not to let emotion, hurt, fear or anger dictate the circumstances of your discussions or negotiations.
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I didn’t dictate sections of ‘Visions of Cody’. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It’s four chapters.
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Collaborate, don’t dictate.
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Government shouldn’t try to dictate what art looks like or what it portrays. Last thing we want is government screwing it up, which is what they would do.
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Songs are like anything else – they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don’t.
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Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if they allow transnational authorities to dictate terms.
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
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Governments should encourage and facilitate the teaching of history, but one does not want them to be able to dictate, for political or partisan reasons, what kind of history and interpretations are on offer to children.
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Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, ‘It’s whatever you want it to be’ – because I think that’s their intention, to connect with each person’s subconscious, and not to try and dictate.
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I don’t believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn’t mean you don’t feel afraid or frightened. I think it’s normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.
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I worry about myself in the ring; I worry about what I can do and how I can dictate a fight.
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I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That’s the one thing I’ve never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.
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I didn’t dictate sections of ‘Visions of Cody.’ I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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Summer is meant to be for travel, for exploration, for leisure, but sometimes budgets and schedules dictate otherwise.
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You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you’ve lost it.
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The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
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I never let the media dictate my identity, so the fact that I’m a size 14 or a size 2 or a size 8 or a size 4, I kind of rock and roll. It doesn’t matter to me.
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The speech recognition is now good enough that I dictate emails on my phone rather than type them in. It’s not perfect, but it’s good enough that it changes how I interact with my phone.
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I feel like if you start letting other people dictate how you’re going to play the game, you shouldn’t play the game. That’s just that simple.
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If I allowed fear to dictate my life, I would not be productive.
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Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I’m writing the manuscript, the characters I’m writing dictate how the plot unfolds.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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It’s on the people to dictate what is relevant and what is moving.
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I’m at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
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My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
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As a player, I could have the ball in my hands; I could kind of dictate what happens. I’m still learning, a young coach with young players. Sometimes I’m going to see things. They’re not going to see what I see. So it’s being able to translate that and help them see what I’m seeing.
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You just – no matter how good things are, or how bad things could be, there’s always going to be negativity or something like that going on, and you just gotta, you know, embrace it, I guess. But don’t let it dictate kind of like how you’re going to live.
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Xenophobia is defined as the uncontrollable fear of foreigners. That fear should not dictate the immigration dialogue any longer.
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