Dictated Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Dictated Quotes from famous persons: Donna Brazile, Lucy Worsley, Kevin de Leon, Marcel Proust, Etgar Keret. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Dictated Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

A government of, by, and for the people requires that people talk to people, that we can agree to disagree but do so in civility. If we let the politicians and those who report dictate our discourse, then our course will be dictated.

Donna Brazile

Jane, Henry VIII’s third wife, wasn’t present at her son‘s christening, as ritual dictated she had to spend another month in bed. From her chamber she could have looked down on the christening procession below, and must have felt great pride.

Lucy Worsley

Clean air shouldn’t be a privilege dictated by where you can afford to live but a right to which we are all entitled.

Kevin de Leon

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Marcel Proust

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.

Etgar Keret

I really think that people’s right to happiness shouldn’t be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I’ve come to know a lot of people that – sexual orientation is such where they’re in love with people from the same sex, and I just don’t think it’s our role in the government to say, ‘No you can’t be married.’

Jon Tester

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with what we’ve been given. We come into the world exactly like you. It’s just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

Viola Davis

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria‘s economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.

Ibrahim Babangida

It’s an uncommon phenomenon, but Mahesh’s popularity has never been dictated by the success of his films.

Namrata Shirodkar

I just don’t like people to be dictated to. I think you should dress however you want.

Alexa Chung

I’m always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I’ve done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience.

Tony Scott

Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

Sam Harris

My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary.

Janet Mock

Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.

Mitski

To me, regardless of who’s in office, the government is strangled by business. And the government’s priorities are dictated by business. I mean, why does America, even after healthcare reform, still not have free universal healthcare? I’m sure it has something to do with the insurance lobby.

Andrew Dominik

I never followed fashion. It’s women who have dictated my conduct.

Azzedine Alaia

We need global tax justice, not charitable scraps dictated by the fancies of the elite.

Owen Jones

By scrapping the government’s centrally dictated density targets we’ll ensure that the right type of new homes are built where they’re needed, ending the glut of one- and two-bedroom flats.

Grant Shapps

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Wayne Dyer

A shoe is not only a design, but it’s a part of your body language, the way you walk. The way you’re going to move is quite dictated by your shoes.

Christian Louboutin

My relationship with Virat is not dictated by political situation. Virat is a fantastic human being and an ambassador of cricket for his country, just like I am for my country.

Shahid Afridi

The colour of my skin determines what opportunities I have; the colour of my skin says there’s only room for one or two of us to be accepted in a certain job; the colour of my skin has dictated everything I’ve done in my whole life.

Kadeena Cox

So much of our life is dictated by our mindsets. So much of it! Of how we think, we shall become.

Lana

Politicians, in many cases – their moral code will be dictated by what can get them reelected, what they can get away with. When you’re out of office, I guess you’re freed from those checks and balances.

Mark Leibovich

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.

Ed Koch

I’m really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I will be dictated to by nobody. I’m the man. And if anyone can prove me wrong, their chance is inside a boxing ring. You don’t like it, change the station.

Tyson Fury

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Mary McCarthy

I lived my whole life in the kitchen. Not only that, but it’s the passion, it’s the love for cooking and food. It’s dictated my entire life – every aspect of it.

Grant Achatz

No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss.

Eric Schneiderman

Being a woman has always been a powerful thing, where history has sometimes dictated otherwise, but I believe that a woman can be compassionate, sensitive, soft, kind.

Jessica Chastain

I’m no dummy. So much of the NBA is just fit and situation, and I always say this, for 85 to 90 percent of the league, your performance is often dictated by your situation and your coaches.

J. J. Redick

In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the ‘New Annual Register,’ the historical part of which I had written for seven years, and abdicated, I hope forever, the task of performing a literary labour, the nature of which should be dictated by anything but the promptings of my own mind.

William Godwin

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

Between 20km and 10km to go, you want the whole team at the front. You don’t necessarily want to take control, and the speed will be dictated by how many surges you get from the other teams. You don’t want to go so fast they can’t come, but you want to be just ahead so you’re in control.

Mark Cavendish

Political reporters no longer get to decide what’s news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day’s headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you’re news.

Daniel Hannan

I work when I work, and that is often dictated by the things I cannot control.

Rumaan Alam

I understand that everything is dictated by market value. But cinema is also an art. It saddens me to see great talent languishing for lack of proper roles.

Paresh Rawal

To me, when you’re at a hotel, and your home environment is ultimately dictated by somebody else, I always find that a little bit oppressive and scary in a way. Especially if it’s not done well or not run well.

Matt Bomer

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

Douglas Trumbull

When it comes to education, no solution, not even ones we like, should be dictated or run from Washington, D.C.

Betsy DeVos

I started my career in Hollywood, where I learned the rumors were true – having success there really was dictated by how who you knew, not what you knew. I grew frustrated by the fact that careers could be made and broken by relationships alone.

Julia Hartz

I’d be absolutely happy to go back and make a smaller picture. I never want my choices to be dictated by budget. That’s one of the reasons why I take so much pride in being able to make films for $2 and a paper clip – because I can always get my hands on $2 and a paper clip. I never have to ask for permission for that.

Ava DuVernay

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

With any body shape it’s important to buy the right size and not be dictated to by size you think you are. Try on a bigger and a smaller size in the shop and see what fits visually. If you do have to go up a size, cut the label out, it’s just a number!

Holly Willoughby

I’m not an historian and I’m not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who’s walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

Penelope Lively

Israel’s decision on whether to strike or not is dictated not from the atmosphere and not from American or European promises but is based on the Iranian project. And I don’t think the Iranians would agree to anything that would satisfy Israel.

Ronen Bergman

The model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess. It bankrupts families and townships. It disables whole classes of decent, normal citizens. It ruins the air we breathe. It corrupts and deadens our spirit.

James Howard Kunstler

It was incredibly daunting for me to go from ‘Son Of Rambow’ to ‘Narnia’ because of the natural jump that there is that is dictated by budget, and the number of people working on it. Even though a lot more people saw ‘Son Of Rambow’ than we expected, a lot more people were always going to go and see ‘Narnia’.

Will Poulter

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

Dario Argento

The policy is one thing, but it’s dictated by what the process is.

Dan Webster

Sunday is the only day where I can kind of do my own thing and not have it dictated by the news cycle.

S.E. Cupp

People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.

John Lydon

About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.

John S. Watson

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn’t want to take the chance.

Ron Jaworski

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

Mitt Romney

I’m a real believer in getting on with the job you have – anything that happens in the future is dictated by what you do now.

Steve Nicol

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

Rob Zombie

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

Marvin Gaye

Every choice I’ve ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.

Peter Brook

I love acting. It’s my playground; it lets me explore. But my happiness in this world, my level of peace, is never going to be dictated by acting. My goal in life is to detach from the egoic mind.

Chris Evans

We genuinely believe to this day that it was an honest genuine mistake and we never imagined the punishment would be eight months. The precedent dictated that it was unlikely to be that. We don’t regret he played for that period.

David Gill

You can’t let your personal disposition be dictated by the world around you.

Greg Graffin

Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.

Jill Lepore

My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed.

Selena Gomez

We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.

Ehud Olmert

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