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“I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.”

People Years Has Beens Birth Expected Vanity Vain

Author:Wallace Shawn

“It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.”

Taken Journey Expected Nba

Author:Larry Bird

“The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.”

Facts Stories Expected Prisoner Reporters

Author:Jim Bishop

“We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.”

“Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.”

Humans Human Beings Expectations Criticism Expected Consideration Entitled Courtesy Constructive Public Service Constructive Criticism

Book:Declaration of conscience

Source: Declaration of conscience

“Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.”

Artist Fit Expected Categories

Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings

“There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!”

Way Giving Hard Jobs Common Practice Giving Up Shining Prepared Expected Common Sense Be Prepared Not Giving Up Never Giving Up Wrong Way Never Give Up On Something

Author:Jimmy Smits

“Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.”

Government Might Father Citizens Empathy Assuming Critics Active Expected Apathy Founding Serfs

Author:Joseph Sobran

“I look up to my brother - he inspires me so much. He has always been my best friend. He knows everything. I left the house at 16 when I auditioned for 'American Idol' and he was 14. It was one of those things that was so sudden and neither of us expected it. He has been so supportive of me even though I know that every time I leave, it hurts him.”

Knows Looks Has Beens House Left Friendship Hurt Inspire Brother Expected My Brother Look Up Idols It Hurts Supportive My Best Friend American Idol

Author:Jordin Sparks

“I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.”

Standards Expected Disappointed

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“I never expected that this would be my life.”

Would Be Expected

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I'm expected to do what's right; I want to leave a legacy of positivity behind.”

Want Behinds Positivity Expected Legacy

Author:Angie Stone

“When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.”

May Christian Sports Expected Grieving Wicked Distress Wickedness Revival

Book:Billy Sunday speaks

Source: Billy Sunday speaks

“Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.”

Doe Causes Fear Perfect Wonder Habit Conflict Angry Expected Sincerity

Author:Tacitus

“I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.”

Failure Expected

Author:Amy Tan

“My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.”

Parent Expectations Expected Kindergarten High Expectations

Author:Amy Tan

“The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.”

Faces Modern Ignorance Training Doctors Medicine Patient Expected Medical Flaws Irresistible Dilemma Modern Medicine Medical Education

Author:Lewis Thomas

“We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.”

Looks Natural Morality Expected

Book:The Knowledge of the Holy

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.”

Source: Trump: How to Get Rich

“A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.”

Men Inspiration Time Leadership Fit Shapes Rounds Expected Holes Squares

Book:Following The Equator

Source: Following The Equator

“I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed.”

Made Different Saws Court Expected Reports Advise Jury Grand Jury

Book:The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

“I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.”

Trying Wells Bigs School Mother Lessons Training Expected Manage Olympics Training For The Olympics

Author:Vera Wang

“Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.”

People Men America Community Progress Men And Women Tough Majority South Expected Hungry Inequality Latin Asia Tough Times Latin America Holding Back South Asia Rural Communities

Author:Dionne Warwick

“A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'”

Made Self Causes Results Events Expected Assumption Fulfilling Prophecy Predictions Accuracy Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Author:Paul Watzlawick

“The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.”

Sometimes Jobs Actors Challenges Shots Expected Better Than You New Job New Challenges

Author:Jacki Weaver

“With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.”

Facts School Father Expected Britain Sibling Facts Of Life Diplomats My Siblings

Author:Arabella Weir

“I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.”

Father Brother Expected Pleasant Farmers Orderly Father And Brother

Book:Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk

Source: Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk

“One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.”

Knows Children Hate Names One Thing Expected Your Children Hats Sarcasm Sarcastic Rest Of Your Life Funny Life

Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

“I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.”

People Ifs Thinking Might Player Football College Expected Uncomfortable Shy Professors Stereotype Football Player Outgoing College Professors Being Shy

Author:Ricky Williams

“But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.”

Work Simple Quality Perfection Satisfaction Profession Expected Luxury Enjoyment Dedication Precision Computer Science Quality Work Job Well Done Personal Satisfaction Dispensable

Author:Niklaus Wirth

“Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.”

Should Character Fashion Expected

Author:Loretta Young

“Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.”

Country Kids Courses Support Expected Troops Just Kids Support The Troops

Author:Neil Young

“I’ve been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do A Cook’s Tour, I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn’t already.”

Book Known Written Expected Cooks Fortunate Quantity Obnoxious

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.”

Ifs Running Accepting Rich Percent Entrepreneur Expected Partners Venture Get Rich New Ventures

Book:The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money

Source: The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money

“We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.”

Children Adults Expected

Author:Romola Garai

“I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.”

Models Expected Designer Stylist

Author:Erin Wasson

“Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.”

Persons Memories Forever Expected Spots Rooted

Author:Frances Mayes

“Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.”

Knows Life Years Suffering Justice Sleep Willing Miracle Expected Vain Abandoned Arriving Dormant Another Time

Book:Winter's Tale

Source: Winter's Tale

“For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.”

Source: Fight Club: A Novel

“Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.”

Speak Chance Messages Expected Mute Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness

Author:Milan Kundera

“She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at some appointed, prearranged time they seemed to stop the flow of affection and being the expectations - as if, for a brief phrase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations.”

Ifs Children Enough Certain Felt Attention Strange Serious Expectations Flow Affection Expected Obligation Phrases Phases Detached

Author:John Irving

“In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.”

Country Literature Pay Attention Design Duty Expected Tone Dictatorship Harmonious Exhibits Free Country

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.”

Used Fun Church Dad Expected Locals Sunday Bells My Best Friend Good Fun Vicars Bells Ringing

Author:Jo Brand

“They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.”

Expected Acknowledge

Author:John Adams

“It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all the things his MAN and his WOMAN, and most of all his BOY, had asked or expected of him. He would have died for them, if that had been required. He had never wanted to kill anybody. He had been struck by something, possibly destiny, or fate, or only a degenerative nerve disease called rabies. Free will was not a factor.”

Ifs Men Wanted Boys Destiny Fate Dog Disease Died Expected Factors Free Will Nerves Good Dog Rabies

Author:Stephen King

“There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.”

Two Matter Home Stars Sky Moon No Matter What Expected Two Things Hung Mama

Book:The Bean Trees: A Novel

Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel

“To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.”

Years Book Stories Attention Findings Paid Expected Skimming

Book:Garden Spells

Source: Garden Spells

“After all, what was adult life but one moment of weakness piled on top of another? Most people just fell in line like obedient little children, doing exactly what society expected of them at any given moment, all the while pretending that they’d actually made some sort of choice.”

People Children Littles Made Moments Choices Given Lines Weakness Adults Expected Pretending Obedient Moments Of Weakness

Book:Little Children: A Novel

Source: Little Children: A Novel

“Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.”

Mean War Ends Situation Expected Irony Ironic

Book:The Great War and Modern Memory

Source: The Great War and Modern Memory

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