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“It's hard to anticipate. I can tell you what I'm feeling right now is that I'm busier than I expected these last two weeks. A great deal of emotion around the people that I've worked with and the gratitude I feel for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of the American people, but also on behalf of me personally.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“In fact, [Bernard Leach] was several generations removed from us. At that time we were there, I think Alix [MacKenzie] and I were 26 and 28, and Leach was about 63, and we thought he was a very old man. I used to always want to help him up the stairs in the house for fear he'd fall. Actually, he was in excellent condition and lived to be much, much older than we ever expected.”

Thinking Men Want Facts Helping Used Fall House Generations Conditions Expected Excellent Old Man Stairs

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“We could make our own pots on the weekends and in the evenings, and we used to do that, and these would be fired in the big kiln, along with all the standard ware that we were producing, but this wasn't quite what we had expected when we read The Potters Book.”

Book Bigs Would Be Used Standards Expected Evening Pot Weekend Potters

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“You have to empathize with your children. If you love them, you never really get too angry with them when they make a mistake, because kids are expected to make mistakes. Having children, you start to see yourself through them.”

Ifs Children Kids Mistake Our Children Angry Expected Your Children Making Mistakes Having Children

Author:Terry Crews

“The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian witness. It also set up evangelicals to be disappointed when the culture did not turn out the way many expected it to turn out. So our response ought to be that we are always, in every culture, strangers in exile.”

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Author:Russell D. Moore

“I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you a future. Now it's almost regulated in a way. When we came out of school, we just wanted to make art that'd blow your hair back and do it for sport. There was no commercial possibility that we saw.”

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Author:Edward Ruscha

“Incidentally, I am intrigued by how many European and Latin American writers expressed their political views in the columns they routinely wrote or write in the popular press, like Saramago, Vargas Llosa, and Eco. This strikes me as one way of avoiding opinionated fiction, and allowing your imagination a broader latitude. Similarly, fiction writers from places like India and Pakistan are commonly expected to provide primers to their country's histories and present-day conflicts. But we haven't had that tradition in Anglo-America.”

“In some cultures, when you give someone a gift, it's expected that they will pass it on. This seems like a peculiar practice in the West, but in many other societies, a gift has a spirit. If you try to possess the gift, you remove its spirit as a gift.”

Ifs Giving Trying Seems Spirit Culture Practice West Expected Remove Peculiar

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“The difference between me and Tiny Lister is that he has never been the greatest actor, he hasn't been able to do a lot of big talking parts in movies, or even... he kind of has one emotion. He never looks at his career as an obstacle, he only looks at the positives. He's done... he knows, he has an opportunity. I mean, you see in a script, "Tiny Lister" type, you know you've made your mark. I mean on Friday After Next, that's what everyone expected me to be the new Tiny because it was that sort of part to fill that role, but if you look at the movie, there was a lot more there.”

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Author:Terry Crews

“Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.”

Persons Has Beens Whole Hands Lying Humanity House Waiting Built Relation Creator Expected Chiefs Charm Tenants

Book:The Unseen Friend

Source: The Unseen Friend

“I feel more and more at ease, because I think the older I get, the less pressure there is. People say, 'Well, he's not cutting edge because he's not in his twenties, so he's not expected to be.'”

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Author:Jude Law

“Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.”

People Wells Seems Taught Treats Obvious Expected Helpful Lennon

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

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Book:The Portable Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln

“I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.”

Civilization Expected Destroying Aircraft

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.”

Men Should Real Kids Marriage Expected Gentle Pleasant Steady Daddy

Author:Loretta Lynn

“Film-making was not at all what I had expected.”

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.”

Inspirational May Matter Inspiration Motivational Tasks No Matter What Parenting Expected Extra Mile Going The Extra Mile

Book:The Greatest Miracle in the World

Source: The Greatest Miracle in the World

“The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.”

Cutting Musician Expected

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and in spite of what most people might have expected from a young girl growing up deaf, life for me was like one long episode of The Brady Bunch. Despite whatever barriers were in my way, I imagined myself as Marcia Brady skating down the street saying “hi” to everyone, whether they knew me or not.”

“I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher, because there's an openness, but a certain set of rules of behavior, and a certain conduct expected. But there's an atmosphere that's relaxed and conducive to exploration, and that is created by someone like Cronenberg.”

Thinking Certain Teacher Directors Behavior Expected Atmosphere Exploration Openness Relaxed Good Directors

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.”

Persons Realizing Expected

Author:Jason Mraz

“Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.”

Ifs Men Important Culture Differences Men And Women Males Expected Acknowledge Biology Rooted Behaviour Norm

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.”

Ifs Thinking Mother Actors Successful Son Daughter Pressure Actresses Expected Actors And Actresses

Author:Liam Neeson

“I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.”

Mean Dies Community Levels Consciousness Steps Higher Defeat Expected Trials Revolutionary Gas Patriotism Rebellion Chamber Higher Level Gas Chambers

Book:Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.”

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Author:Grover Norquist

“I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.”

Individual Unions Workers Expected Things To Do Employers Joining

Author:Frances O'Grady

“I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.”

People Grew Grew Up Mark Expected Toes

Author:Bill Parcells

“When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.”

Writing Persons Natural Style Expected Charmed

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I never expected to be anybody important.”

Important Expected

Author:Elvis Presley

“When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.”

Firsts Would Be Able Political Interest Party Expected Reform Political Parties Civil Service

Book:Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

“I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.”

Mother Nice Harder Surprise Expected Adaptation Being A Mother

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was a prerequisite. It's what a man did. You get up, you put on your boots, and you work hard. We've lost a lot of that, I'm afraid.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.”

Thinking Kind Father Lines Brother Police Expected My Brother Officers Retired Police Officer Fireman

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

Humans Given Destiny Generations Events Expected Mysterious Cycles This Generation Rendezvous

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

Love Life Inspiration Strong Relationship Weak Hatred Expected Gentleness

Book:The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission

Source: The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission

“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.”

Writing Dream Wanted Expected Popularity Wildest Dreams

Author:J. K. Rowling

“If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.”

Ifs Christian Faces Angry Expected Face To Face Fundamentalist

Author:J. K. Rowling

“By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.”

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Author:Kevin Rudd

“In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.”

Men Wells Mark Expected Olden Days

Author:Leonard Bernstein

“Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.”

Artist Harder Expected Shock

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.”

Ifs Men Children Behinds Possession Expected Pathetic Exertion

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.”

People Men Made Mistake Expectations Expected Imposing

Author:Dan Savage

“As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.”

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Author:Allyson Schwartz

“I never expected the White House to be warm, and the artwork on the walls was extraordinary. I am a fan of the Louvre, but being there it was almost just as good.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?”

Ifs Knows Way Kind Mean Wanted Expected Cult Publicists

Author:Amy Sedaris

“You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.”

Knows Writing Stories Process Like You Discovery Expected Documentaries

Author:William Shatner