Expected Quotes
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I think you grow up on every shoot you do. You do grow up because you're away from home, you're not with all of your friends constantly and in that environment you have to be grown up. You're working with adults and you're sort of expected to be older and that's how I like to put myself across. I don't want to come across as constantly messing about.
Georgia Groome
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. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.
Karen Cushman
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The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected.
Heidi Hammel
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I never really understood what was expected of me as a man, or how I was supposed to interact with women, but worse, with other guys. I did not relate to them.
Michael Ian Black
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It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.
Gary Payton
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Studies show that women seeking power tend to be punished for doing so, because it goes against cultural bias. Women are expected to be likeable and pliant. We are also trained to expect any success we attain to come to us through men - by pleasing men, as good employees, good partners.
Catherine Mayer
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Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.
Robert Webb
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It goes back to my childhood. I never expected not to win. It's about winning. Winning's fun.
Mike McCarthy
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I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Then Brás woke up and realized that when you turn that corner, that future you have written and wished for is not always there waiting for you. In fact, it usually isn't at all what you expected... around the corner there is just another big annoying question mark. It's called life.
Fábio Moon
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My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.
Troian Bellisario
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Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
John Motson
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Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist.
Terry Teachout
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Finish: Even if you run a slower than expected time, you succeed in any marathon when you finish.
Hal Higdon
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
John Maynard Keynes
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I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.
Nicole Kidman
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I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.
Jennifer Garner
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Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are to be institutionally rewarded or penalized... The need to reduce the indicators to a manageable few is based not only on the need to conserve the time (and sanity) of those who assign rewards and penalties, but also to provide those subject to these incentives with some objective indication of what their performance is expected to be and how it will be judged... key indicators can never tell the whole story.
Thomas Sowell
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I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.
Richard Pryor
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Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.
Rudolf Arnheim
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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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I have a lot of great players around me. I have the best O-line in football. It's what's expected.
Ezekiel Elliott
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One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
Norman R. Augustine