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Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

~Amanda Palmer

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Ask questions; don't make assumptions.

~Angela Ahrendts

Topics: Ask Assumptions Make Questions

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We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality.

~Ann Richards

Topics: Assumptions Away Challenges Economic Fit Living Make More New Old Order Problems Programs Reality Running Running Away Seen Set Social Society Stretch Them Try Whole Will Work

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Differences challenge assumptions.

~Anne Wilson Schaef

Topics: Assumptions Challenge Differences

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I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Assumptions Been Bizarre Exciting Find Interesting Often Perhaps Perverse Stuff Way

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Every role is a potential lover. I ask: Are they someone I want to wake up to in the morning and go to bed with at night? Do they question my assumptions about life? Consume me to distraction? Make my cry, then clown to make me laugh again? If I say yes, then it's all I need.

~Aunjanue Ellis

Topics: About Again Ask Assumptions Bed Clown Consume Cry Distraction Every Go Laugh Life Lover Make Make Me Laugh Me Morning Need Night Potential Question Role Say Someone Then Up Wake Wake Up Want Yes

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I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.

~Barry Bonds

Topics: Assumptions Baseball Based Beliefs Fame Hall Kind League Major Major League Part Voters Want

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I'm a strong believer that you can build great companies in time of both greed and fear. But you have to be paying attention and operating under the right assumptions. You don't have to believe history repeats itself, but you should accept that history rhymes.

~Brad Feld

Topics: Accept Assumptions Attention Believe Believer Both Build Companies Fear Great Greed History History Repeats Itself Itself Operating Paying Repeats Rhymes Right Should Strong Time You

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I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

~Callie Khouri

Topics: About Assumptions Characters Complex Everyone Kinds Know Like Love Make Place Qualities Redeeming Start Them Think Where You I Love

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You never know what curve balls life is going to throw you and there's no way I can predict anything or make any assumptions about what the rest of my life is going to be like.

~Carrie Underwood

Topics: About Any Anything Assumptions Balls Curve Going Know Life Like Make My Life Never Predict Rest Throw Way You I Can

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