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It's important for me to be aggressive and not defer.
Brandon Ingram /
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In animation, you can often defer decisions or make changes later.
John Knoll /
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To defer to someone else's definition of a life well-lived is a Faustian bargain.
Rachel Simmons / Author
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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Charles Olson / Poet
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In the Philippines, the host should always be willing to defer to the wishes of the guest.
Ferdinand Marcos / Former President Of The Philippines
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Philippines
Willing
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People in Hollywood defer to what they know, which is a white lead, particularly in romantic comedies.
Lana Condor /
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Comedies
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I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm a little self-righteous.
Billy Crudup / Actor
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Self
Self Righteous
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Wish
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.
Mikhail Bakunin /
Atheism
Authority
Boots
Doe
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Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
David Low / Political Cartoonist
Belief
Critics
Feelings
Satirist
Views
Beliefs
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Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
Zbigniew Brzezinski / Former National Security Advisor
Altogether
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I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm / Soccer Player
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If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.
Joe Greene / Football Player
Nuclear
Nuclear Physics
Physics
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My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Authority
Speculation
Use
Violence
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In terms of basketball decisions, I will always defer to Magic. He's brought a vision of the kind of team we're going to build and a vision of what Lakers basketball is going to be.
Jeanie Buss /
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If you trust your instincts and it doesn't turn out right, OK. But if you compromise and defer to what somebody else is telling you and it doesn't work out, that feeling gnaws at me.
Porter Robinson /
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
Xun Kuang /
Human Nature
Profit
Struggle
Yield
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Follow
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
Verite /
Anxious
Always Me Black
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I'd say it was always in me - it's just what's required of you is very different in the moment that you become leader. When you're part of a team, you defer, and you're there to support your leader.
Jacinda Ardern /
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Blocking a shot can really demoralize a person and defer them from coming to the rim the rest of the game. So being able to do that and change the landscape of the game by one play is pretty amazing.
Javale Mcgee /
Landscape
Blocking
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Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It's not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it.
Anthony Pratt /
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When you have somebody like Christie Rampone, with the vast experience she has had, you're going to defer to her line because she has played in so many huge games, and she knows what she's talking about.
Becky Sauerbrunn / Soccer Player
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I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer.
David Milch / Producer
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Chaos
Conviction
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Humility
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Proper
Toward
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Even over time, with a stable coaching staff and one manager who is fantastic and been in place for a long time, you can't ever defer and stay out of the clubhouse because you don't want to get in the way.
Theo Epstein / Manager
Coaching Staff
Stable
Time Long Way
Clubhouse
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My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.
Bill O'reilly / Host
Kings
Father
Philosophy
Accordingly
Castle
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Except
Firmly
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The SEC and CFTC are expert agencies blessed with immensely capable professionals. Judges value and defer to that expertise - when it's exercised to make the hard decisions that Congress entrusts to an agency.
Eugene Scalia /
Blessed
Capable
Congress
Expertise
Decisions
Agencies
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Immensely
Judges
Professionals
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I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Stephen Grellet /
Good
Neglect
Way
World
Now
Once
Being
Me
Again
Any
Show
Through
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Human
Human Being
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Shall
Therefore
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I think our election proved to us that 'billionaire' is an incredibly magical word in our language in that people just defer to it. Donald Trump is not a billionaire, but he knew it was vital for him to be perceived as one.
Chris Sacca / Investor
Election
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Donald
Donald Trump
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Perceived
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Vital
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Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal / Businessman
New York
Respect
Appreciate
Healing
Behind
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Mosque
Wound
York
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I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.
Bob Graham / Former Governor Of Florida
Accelerate
Depreciation
Payroll
Payroll Tax
Relief
Tax
Allow
Billion
Businesses
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Incentive
Small Businesses
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This should be a written rule: Guards should always defer to centers. I don't care how good you are, those big guys make the game so much easier for every other person on that team, and without them, everyone else needs to work twice as hard.
Clyde Drexler /
Big Guys
Work Good Always
Work Good Game
Centers
Defer
Everyone Else
Guards
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From the Left comes the proposition that, given the slow economy, we should defer attending to the problem of mounting obligations - and the truly delusional idea that growing federal debt doesn't matter because we owe most of it to ourselves.
Steven Rattner / Financier
Attending
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Owe
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I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they're the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginning to the end. I'm responsible for one small part, so my scope is much more limited than theirs.
Shoshannah Stern / Actress
Scope
Vision
Beginning
Complete
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When you pretend to be an authority on everything, it forces your subordinates to defer to your opinion - which may not be the most informed in the room. If you have humility concerning the gaps in your experience or ability, it allows others to shine.
Courtney A. Kemp /
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Humility
Opinion
Concerning
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The way I was brought up in improv was that any idea you have is not as good as your partner's idea, so if I see someone else initiating at the same time I am, I just defer to them because I assume their idea is going be better. And hopefully, they're doing the same with me.
Scott Adsit / Actor
Time Good Better
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When you teach black people that they are less beautiful, less moral, less intelligent, and as a result you defer to the white supremacist status quo, you rationalize your accommodation to the status quo, you lose your fire, you become much more tied to producing foliage, what appears to be the case.
Cornel West / Philosopher
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Appears
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To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself.
James E. Faust / Lawyer
Parenting
Good
Character
Children
Father
Good Father
Mother
Needs
Nobility
Practice
Sacrifice
Savior
Selfless
Taught
Own
Conscientious
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Desires
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Favor
Himself
Parents
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Something happens in school sometimes where you're like, 'Oh, I'm not an expert, and I have to defer to people who are.' And it happens not just in school: it happens in religion, too. Defer to the experts. A printing press is a big deal - they got the Bible, and all of a sudden they could read it for themselves.
Sal Khan /
Religion
Bible
Big Deal
Experts
Printing Press
Oh
Read
Deal
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Expert
Press
Sudden
Themselves
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Now, President Obama has to make a decision. He can either propose a nominee who can win over the majority in the Senate or defer his choice to the voters, who in November will elect a new President and a new Senate, which will be responsible for confirming a nominee who will provide balance to the Supreme Court.
Cory Gardner /
November
President Obama
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Senate
Supreme
Supreme Court
Voters
Confirming
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Why do we fully tax some kinds of income from capital, like interest and dividends; partially tax other kinds like capital gains; defer tax on other kinds, like IRAs; and impose no tax at all on still other types of capital income, like interest on municipal bonds? This simply is not rational. These distinctions don't have any inherent logic.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Capital Gains
Gains
Income
Inherent
Logic
Rational
Tax
Bonds
Capital
Defer
Distinctions
Fully
Impose
Municipal
Types
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There is a lot of talk in conservative circles about judicial modesty and deferring to the political branches. That view of judging often overlooks the important role that courts have in protecting people's rights. But if there was ever a time to defer, it is when Congress is protecting voting rights in the exact way the Constitution directs it to.
Adam Cohen /
Branches
Circles
Congress
Conservative
Judging
Modesty
Political
Rights
Voting
Talk
Time View People
Time Political People
Courts
Often
Defer
Exact
Important Role
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