I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.
If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.
M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
Foreigners who speak Arabic in the Middle East are often assumed to be working for the C.I.A. or Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad.
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.
I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.
That's the poisoned chalice: when you're shy, people assume you're arrogant.
I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.
