Assigned Quotes

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But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.

- Jim McKay

When I took acting classes and being drunk was the assigned impediment of the day, a lot of people would go out the night before and get drunk. That`s not research! Research is going to bar... and drinking coffee.

- Sam Rockwell

More times than I care to remember I have sympathized with too many of them assigned like myself, to some of the world`s royal bad places.

- Christiane Amanpour

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn`t ask for one. One was assigned to me.

- Mercedes McCambridge

It will be sometime next year. We know that the tasks ahead for all the staff and judicial officers will be challenging and demanding, but we pledge to do our best to carry out the responsibility to which we have been assigned so that justice delayed will not mean justice denied for the Cambodian people, who have waited for long.

- Michelle Lee

Respect is not ever assigned; it`s earned.

- Linda Tripp

He will be assigned to our special offenders unit. He`ll be watched very closely.

- Jack Patrick Ryan

If the train is late by five minutes anywhere between South Bend and Kensington station, it can mean our trains miss their assigned times and can mean our trains arrive 50 minutes late getting into Chicago.

- John Parsons

Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

- Sarah Vowell

In the last system they were assigned for a number of days. Under this program they must complete the requirements. It could take students 45 days, but it could take a bit longer.

- Sharon Moore

I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.

- Jack Adams

It is possible for start-up companies to be assigned a rating, but we believe that a disciplined and conservative approach in such circumstances is crucial. The outlook for the insurance market is very upbeat. Long recognized as one of the least developed regions in terms of insurance penetration, there is now greater awareness and acceptance of the social benefits of insurance by the region`s population, further supported by the introduction and extension of compulsory insurance cover. Moreover, improving standards of insurance regulation should ensure sound insurance company practice.

- Kevin Willis

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

- Grover Cleveland

If I were assigned poems I suppose I`d write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done.

- Thomas Lynch

To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

- A.E. Dick Howard

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

- Alexei Ponikarovsky

I knew how many MPs I had assigned to the brigade, how many military prison operations I would be running, but we needed to evaluate how many criminal prison operations we could support.

- Ali Allawi

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet.

- Allan Milbradt

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed.

- Allen Spelce

They had been assigned a role. They were a member of the greater whole. They shared our same goals. Through the simple act of helping out.

- Allison Elsby

When I was first elected to the state House of Representatives in 1974, one of the committees I was assigned to was Land, Water and Hawaiian Homes.

- Ami Brophy

Even while we busily attend meetings, contribute money and perform our assigned tasks, we suspect that we may be helping to create a force that is inimical to many values we hold dear.

- Andre Artero

This is mainly going to alleviate overcrowding at Double Churches. We`re going to let fifth-graders who get assigned from those two schools to North Columbus remain at their schools, if their parents want them to continue there and they apply for a hardship. Students in the other grades can apply for a hardship, but we will look at space available.

- Angie Lassman

On September 1, the water line was at our headquarters, ... Outside our headquarters, the water is gone. It`s not until you leave the area to which you`re specifically assigned and you go outside that you see the devastation, that you see the water still flooding buildings up to half-way up their length that you realize there`s still a lot to do here.

- Azyumardi Azra

The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.

- Robert Anton Wilson

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

- Grover Cleveland