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“When you teach your students that it's "economically rational" to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.”

Rooms Moral Teach Crime Students Fine Return Ethics Expected Commit Rational Instill Misconduct

Author:Cory Doctorow

“The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.”

Men Example Divine Expected Chiefs Clock Sunday Officers Commanders Commander In Chief Attendance

Author:George Washington

“Although no explanation can be expected to be satisfactory, it remains a possibility among others that Mendel was deceived by some assistant who knew too well what was expected. This possibility is supported by independent evidence that the data of most, if not all, of the experiments have been falsified so as to agree closely with Mendel's expectations.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Possibility Expectations Evidence Independent Agree Remains Expected Experiments Data Explanation Deceived Assistants Mendel

Author:Ronald Fisher

“I never really expected any of the music business to happen, but I'm glad it did. It was a very cool thing to happen. It was a hobby for me. I used to do it to meet girls. If you had long hair and could play a guitar then you got girls. That's how I started. Then I fell in love with the music and got carried away.”

Ifs Long Play Happens Used Girl Hair Guitar Expected Glad Hobbies Music Business Cool Things Carried Away Long Hair Very Cool

Author:John Martyn

“The grass is always greener. You think how wonderful it would be to be someone else, but I don't think I would like it. I'm thrilled to observe other people, but I don't want to be in their shoes. If I got there, I might find it not quite what I expected, and it would break my illusion, and I don't want that!”

People Ifs Thinking Want Might Would Be Break Wonderful Illusion Shoes Expected Grass Greener Grass Is Always Greener

Author:Marti Webb

“I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.”

Given Workers Expected

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.”

People Knows Seems Age Young Expected

Author:Joni Mitchell

“There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something they can ever understand. And it's not as if we are ever going to be accepted. We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.”

Ifs Children Long Different Parent Expected Accepted Immigrants Conform Diaspora

Author:Junot Diaz

“When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.”

World Written Serious Poet Criticism Expected Plenty Korean

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“I enjoyed being what I was in radio, which some thought of as a shock jock although, to this day, I still can't figure out what I've done that's so shocking. As to my favorite interviews, I loved having my mother and father on. I also enjoyed talking to Elmo, who's a puppet. I found T.I.'s trying to be extra-cool very endearing. Tyra Banks was not the diva I expected her to be. I loved talking to her. And Simon Cowell is a really nice guy. Yeah! He's my fave, and he's handsome.”

“As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.”

Art Values Culture Struggle Models Machines Rewards Speed Expected Productivity Conform Slowness

Author:Junot Diaz

“Used to be in the old days, only the pulp writers wrote like machines. Now everybody is expected to be literary John Henrys. So in that context someone like me is an anomaly.”

Used Machines Expected Like Me Used To Be Old Days Pulp Anomalies

Author:Junot Diaz

“I'm happy to say that I have not been fired off a film. The score is usually the last thing to be done. So a lot lands on the scores shoulders. A lot of problems that seem to have nothing to do with the music gets blamed on the music , because it's relatively cheap to change, where as a reshoot etc is not. Music is often expected to help or fix bad cuts, bad acting, bad filming, bad timing, you name it.”

Done Helping Problem Seems Lasts Film Names Acting Cutting Land Music Is Expected Shoulders Score Etc Timing Bad Acting Bad Timing

Author:Trevor Rabin

“I definitely was always expected and encouraged to be a songwriter from a very young age, ... But really it's because, as a child, I thought I was Judy Garland. And when I started out, I was a little nuts. I thought I was a classic, legendary superstar when only 10 people knew who I was. I feel in some ways that my confidence is misinterpreted as arrogance, which is understandable. But I've also always thought that false modesty is evil.”

People Way Feels Children Littles Age Young Evil Expected Classic Arrogance Nuts Modesty Songwriters Young Age Superstar Legendary Garlands Misinterpreted False Modesty

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“I would never have been discovered without the X Factor. I was just doing the working men's clubs and I loved doing that. That was the life for me at that time. I never expected to be noticed doing that, that's why I went for X Factor by myself.”

Men Has Beens Clubs Expected Factors Working Man

Author:Shayne Ward

“I find a lot of people struggling in their lives because they feel like it was expected they do a certain thing or act a certain way and not follow what their gut is telling them to do.”

People Way Feels Certain Struggle Expected Guts

Author:Kelly Oxford

“I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.”

Country Wanted Father My Own Grew Grew Up South Expected Core

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.”

Has Beens Communication Ocean Rivers Expected Exploring Could Have Been Pacific Expeditions Missouri Pacific Ocean

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.”

Christianity Principles Civilization Expected

Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“This is the entire spiritual life, Ananda, that is, good friendship, good companionship, good comradeship. When a monk has a good friend, a good companion, a good comrade, it is to be expected that he will develop and cultivate the Noble Eightfold Path.”

Spiritual Path Noble Expected Companion Spiritual Life Good Friend Companionship Monk Comrade Comradeship Good Friendship

Author:Gautama Buddha

“In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are taken, not merely given: we learn to perceive.... The teacher has forgotten, and the student himself will soon forget, that what he sees conveys no information until he knows beforehand the kind of thing he is expected to see.”

Knows Kind Order Given Forget Taken Teacher Information Students Picks Tests Forgotten Expected Witness Data Perceive Sensations Hypothesis

Author:Peter Medawar

“I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'”

People Thinking Humans Looks Persons States Moving Laughing Nice Danger Expected Admire Pubs Nice Person Have A Laugh

Author:Jo Brand

“Yeah, sometimes it gets a little sappy for me, but I'm tired of hearing about dysfunctional families in sitcoms. That's been done to death, and that's probably what everybody expected from me. But that's not what I wanted to do.”

Littles Sometimes Done Wanted Yeah Tired Hearing Expected Sitcom I'm Tired Dysfunctional Family

Author:Mike Judge

“The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The greater the number of selections, the less will be the average year-to-year variation in actual versus expected results. Also, the lower will be the expected results, assuming different choices have different expectations of performance.”

“The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.”

Should Kids Community Situation Honest Expected Being Honest Hypocrisy Judged Impossibility

Author:Amy Ray

“I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.”

People Way May Mean Hard Individual Particular Boxes Expected Characterization

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered.”

Ifs Prayer Expected Our Prayers

Author:Edgar Cayce

“The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.”

Individual Nations United Issues Members Vote Organization Towns Meetings Expected Block Behave Merit Founders United Nations Emergence Polarization

Book:Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983

Source: Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983

“Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.”

Firsts Surprise Expected Shock

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn't even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.”

“I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.”

“Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.”

Writing Artist Expected

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“It's all gravy when everything's great, but if there comes a point where there's a problem, as with any kind of relationship you need to fix it. There's always going to be something, and it could be the smallest detail you'd never have expected or it could be something substantial, but it's how you deal with things.”

Ifs Needs Kind Problem Deals Details Expected Smallest Gravy

Author:Erol Alkan

“I feel like there's no such thing as failure. When something doesn't go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and I accomplish more than I initially expected to.”

Way Want Feels Accomplish Expected

Author:Thomas Jones

“I never thought in a million years that I'd ever sell out back-to-back shows at The Garden. That's not to say, I never expected my career to take off. Still, it was a "Pinch Me, Wake Me Up" moment. I was like, "Wow! I can't believe this. That I'm actually here, and this is actually happening." And in that moment, when I was about to thank my fans for supporting me, I noticed that they were standing up clapping. It was overwhelming, and became a very emotional moment when I tried to thank them.”

Years Believe Stills I Can Moments Shows Careers Millions Fans Emotional Happenings Garden Standing Sells Expected That Moment Overwhelming Wow Clapping

Author:Kevin Hart

“Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.”

World Giving Care Kids School Guy Stuff Black Hell Wife Violence Asking Chaos My Wife Expected Bunch Ass Confusion Broke Live Life Jail Lawsuit Black Guys Love My Wife I Love My Wife

Author:Mike Tyson

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.”

Kind Art States United United States Entertainment Expected Narrative Visuals

Author:Massimiliano Gioni

“I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.”

People Kind Play Bigs America Film Causes Bits Careers Honest Impact Surprise Expected Being Honest Broadway Saying Yes Big Impact

Author:Alan Rickman

“The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.”

People Needs Should Looks Facts Decision Minutes Listening Conflict Weapons Expected Nuclear Zone Cracks Unusual Nuclear Weapons Rhetoric Gave Up Precedent Concessions

Author:Michael Hastings

“One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.”

People Vision Building Consequence Expected Brands Chasing Clicks Building A Brand

Author:Astra Taylor

“My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.”

Father Sides Married Expected Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother Betrayed My Grandfather Descent Portuguese

Author:Fred D'Aguiar

“You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can.”

I Can Hard Bigs Able Creative Pure Grateful Who You Are Expected Genuine Steadfast

Author:Adam Young

“There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Something is always lost in translation; we know instinctively that this is the case. A Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.”

Knows Looks Stories America Certain Lost Cases Amount Speech Radio Details Delight Expected Latin Translations Latin America Dialect Latin American Fluency Lost In Translation

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.”

Thinking Needs Should Kind Self Might Fun Stuff Sound Interesting Subjects Reader Prove Add Expected Evident Prove It

Author:Lorin Stein

“I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to. By seeing what kinds of thinking are going on in short fiction. I was also surprised by the panic I've felt, especially at first, when we'd put an issue to bed and then realized we had to put another one together.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Together Used Reading Found Felt Pleasure Fiction Issues Seeing Bed Expected Panic

Author:Lorin Stein

“I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.”

Art Careers Expected Fortunate

Author:Marcel Dzama

“I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.”

Jobs Mother Night Father Encouragement Trade Expected

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.”

Writing Firsts Book Happens Five Twenties Expected Thirty

Author:David Sedaris

“I think it's important to have a consistent communication with the fans but I don't think it should be expected.”

Thinking Should Important Fans Communication Expected Consistent

Author:Beau Bokan

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