I can never consent to being dictated to.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

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

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

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

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

I will not be in the position of having management dictated to by labor.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

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

No child's future should ever be dictated by what zip code they were born in.

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

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

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

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

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

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

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

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

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

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

Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

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

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

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

Everything I've done in my life has been dictated by the fact that I like to be home at night and in bed.

Most of our lives are dictated by money and when we lose or gain some, we change so much as an individual.

To be honest with you, my physical state is usually dictated by the project I'm working on at a given time.

I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

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

Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

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

Dad lived his life in a way that it was his character, not his circumstances, that dictated what his life looked like.

I am like a common man who is dictated by what I like and I sometimes feel that if something good, I should produce it.

With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

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.

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

It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street.

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

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

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

Argentina should grow with a project of its own and implemented by Argentines, not dictated by foreigners with old recipes that always fail.

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.

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.

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.

In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.

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