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It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
Joe Biden / Vice President Of The United States
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It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.
Gail Carson Levine / Author
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Assumptions are usually presumptuous but often correct.
Walter Darby Bannard / Painter
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I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.
Winona Ryder / Actress
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It's presumptuous for us to think we are the only beings in the cosmos.
Louis Gossett, Jr. / Actor
Cosmos
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I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.
Martin Shkreli /
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We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.
Max Lucado / Author
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Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.
Brendan Benson / Musician
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Stupid
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It's dangerous talking about comedy; it gets to be very tedious and presumptuous.
Christopher Guest / Baron Haden-Guest
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I never declared I wanted to be an astronaut, as I considered that was presumptuous.
Brian Binnie /
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Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Hesiod / Poet
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Bad Man
Cities
Deeds
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It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Phillips Brooks / Clergyman
Can Do
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The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
Jennifer Weiner / Writer
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I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe / Writer
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Literature
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It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.
Stanley Schmidt / Fictioneer
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Believe
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If I can say so without sounding presumptuous, I want to model women being collaborative instead of competitive.
Julien Baker /
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I'll play for whoever drafts me. I'm just not going to be presumptuous about what they want to do. It's the draft.
Joe Burrow /
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It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.
Kevin Macdonald /
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You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
Patrice Leconte / Film Director
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People
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
Vidal Sassoon / Hairdresser
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Giving
People
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Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
Jessica Savitch / Television Personality
Birthday
Smile
Age
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Records
Writing
Time Best Work
Autobiographical
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
Dan Hill / Singer-Songwriter
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Pop Music
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Sexually
Charged
Frequently
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I'm not being presumptuous, I hope, when I say that 'The Crown' is little bit like 'The Godfather.' It is essentially about a family in power and survival.
Peter Morgan / Film Writer
Little Bit
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I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.
Tea Leoni / Film Actress
Broke
Children
Heart
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When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn't have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else's.
Richard Branson / Business Magnate
Curriculum
Hiring
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Myself Feel See
Myself Feel Never
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Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
Duane Michals / Photographer
Drawing
Inference
People
Photography
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Great People Nothing
Great Always People
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There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
Dan Aykroyd / Comedian
Centre
Humankind
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It would be presumptuous to say writing a book would be a sufficient gesture, but if people were more preoccupied with the past, maybe the events that overwhelm us would be fewer.
W. G. Sebald / Writer
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There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.
Joe Biden / Vice President Of The United States
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Long
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While I knew that individuals had in history - and still could - make a difference, it seemed presumptuous - even pompous - to imagine that I could be part of it, that I could be one of them.
Samantha Power / Director For Multilateral Affairs
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Individuals
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For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.
Rod Mckuen / Poet
Everyman
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Phase
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I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.
Faith Ringgold / Artist
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Exactly What
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It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.
Sean Parker / Entrepreneur
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Self Serving
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It was always presumptuous to expect Russia, an ancient nation-state and proud empire of distinct culture with a tradition of autocracy, to become an Anglo-American democracy overnight - just as it is naive to expect it in other parts of the world.
Simon Sebag-Montefiore / Journalist
Ancient
Autocracy
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Checking email every 45 seconds is not only compulsive, it's presumptuous. It suggests a belief that anyone who sends us a message needs us to read it immediately, even if the message is from SkyMall telling us our Bigfoot Garden Yeti statue has shipped.
Meghan Daum / Author
Garden
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Checking
Immediately
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But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.
Rowan Atkinson / Actor
Arrogance
Church
England
People
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Scientists, especially physicists, we're presumptuous and think we can do everything better than everybody else. And one thing that I realized early is, I had some talent managing and organizing things - you know, some people are better organizers than others - but why should I reinvent the wheel?
Barry Barish /
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Everybody Else
Physicists
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I was 13 years old at music school talking to my teacher. I can't quite remember what it was I was trying to describe, but I do remember my music teacher saying to me, 'Do you have synesthesia?' In hindsight, it seems a little presumptuous of her to think a little boy in Essex would know what synesthesia was.
Dev Hynes / Singer-Songwriter
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You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!
Jeffrey Kluger / Writer
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For the left-leaning, political identity is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should you get on well with leftists at a party, they will blithely assume that you share the same views on the invasion of Iraq, even if all you've talked about is the canapes.
Lionel Shriver / Journalist
Intertwined
Invasion
Liable
Personal Identity
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Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.
Joe Biden / Vice President Of The United States
Aisle
Democratic
Democratic Party
Foreign Policy
Influence
Minimum
Party
Policy
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Senate
Successful
Winning
Cross
Direction
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