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“I think most gypsies all over the world are used to being not really welcome and always on the run, expecting people to not like them and to be critical.”

People Thinking World Running Used Critical Welcome Expecting Gypsy

Author:Noomi Rapace

“What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.”

Ifs Feels Children Book Worst Tragedy Outcomes Pregnancy Very Strong Expecting Syndromes

Author:Sally Phillips

“The burning bushes, the smoking mountains, . . . the Cumorahs, and the Kirtlands were realities; but they were the exceptions. . . . Always expecting the spectacular, many will miss entirely the constant flow of revealed communication.”

Reality Missing Communication Mountain Flow Constant Burning Smoking Exception Expecting Spectacular Burning Bush

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it's never the case & it will almost always be a let down.”

People Past Cases Genuine Expecting Let Down

Author:Behdad Sami

“I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.”

Firsts Hands Eye Earth Death Three Born Numbers Generations Members My Family Fingers Males Legs Reasonable Expecting Toes Three Generations

Author:Neil Kinnock

“[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.”

Father Forever Blood Blessed Priests Expecting Short Time Relics

Book:Varieties of Exile

Source: Varieties of Exile

“My sister gained 80 pounds expecting her baby. Well, you get nervous, waiting for those adoption papers to clear.”

Wells Waiting Clear Baby Paper Nervous Pounds My Sister Expecting Adoption Papers

Author:Emo Philips

“If somebody tells me, 'You have to pass that car right there,' I guarantee you I'm going to step up the aggressiveness to a whole other level and that may mean beating and banging. But until it calls for that moment, I'm not expecting to go out there and just beat and bang for no reason.”

Ifs May Mean Reason Whole Moments Levels Steps Car Beats Guarantees No Reason That Moment Expecting Bangs Step Up Banging Aggressiveness

Author:Jeff Gordon

“It really reminds me of the great movies of the 30's and 40's with huge sets and voluminous fireplaces you could walk around in. Glazed floors. I was expecting a Busby Berkley dance number. Big fanfare and all the girls coming out. I'd have joined in. It's got that scale, you know?”

Knows Bigs Girl Walks Numbers Huge Scales Coming Out Expecting Fireplaces Fanfare

Author:Ray Stevenson

“Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.”

Ends Done Certain Stuff Sound Watches Opposites Theme Expecting Very Sad Synthesizers

Author:A. R. Rahman

“I thought the other ones were so obviously - what are we going to do if she burns down the house? The DEA, which I think was maybe the best one because she's wearing the jacket when she goes through the mirror and I think that was kind of amazing because you really weren't expecting that. There's something almost slapstick about this in a way that worried me. It was a little pratfalley with the golf club and the - but I think it probably cut together okay.”

Ifs Thinking Way Kind Littles Together House Cutting Okay Mirrors Golf Clubs Worried Being The Best Expecting Jackets Golf Clubs Slapstick

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“Whether it's an $11 flip-flop or a $2 key ring or a $2,000 dress, they're all done with integrity. They're all done with a design sense. As long as the creativity exists, then I don't think it's a sellout. A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it.”

People Thinking Long Done Names Creativity Pieces Design Keys Integrity Dresses Rings Expecting Crap Flip Flip Flops

Author:Marc Jacobs

“I think about more than I forget, but I don't go around fire expecting not to sweat.”

Thinking Forget Fire Sweat Expecting

Author:Lil Wayne

“They got special terms that they use when they're pregnant. They don't even say pregnant, got special words they use - I'm expecting. Expecting what? I'm expecting a child, silly. Well, then, you probably got a good shot!”

Wells Children Use Term Special Shots Silly Expecting Pregnant

Author:Brad Stine

“Photojournalist? With a few exceptions, those of us working as photojournalists might now more appropriately call ourselves illustrators. For, unlike real reporters, whose job it is to document what's going down, most of us go out in the world expecting to give form to the magazine, or to newspaper editor's ideas, using what's become over the years a pretty standardized visual language. So we search for what is instantly recognizable, supportive of the text, easiest to digest, or most marketable - more mundane realities be damned.”

“I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.”

Giving Art Sometimes Enough Our Lives Lucky Expecting Grandparent

Author:Alan Alda

“It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music.”

Knows Years Two Reason Found Sound Rooms Blood Lows Years Ago Intention Silent Nervous Operations Forty Exploration Expecting Chamber Vibrations Harvard Nervous System Circulation Life Direction

Author:John Cage

“When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.”

Millions Successful Havens Majors Spending Labels Online Expecting

Author:Peter Gabriel

“God spoke to me clearly and said, 'Did I give my son Jesus on the cross expecting nothing in return?' God bankrupted heaven and gave the best gift he could give. He gave the best offering he could give. What did God need? He needed sons and daughters, he gave the very thing he needed. You can bring God a gift fully expecting something in return. Get to the phone!'”

“I suppose "giving without expecting anything in return" isn't something new, but it always pushes your happy button when you do it or see it.”

Giving Return Something New Expecting Buttons

Author:Misha Collins

“Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just me and the book. It was great.”

Littles Book Millions Pieces Agents Related Expecting Bullshit Publishers Million Little Pieces

Author:James Frey

“It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.”

Important Whole Causes Excited Dimensions Expecting

Author:Wyclef Jean

“Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.”

Different Real Moments Our Lives Bigger Dramatic Expecting Moments Of Happiness Expecting Something

Book:Wake-up calls

Source: Wake-up calls

“I'm glad they gave women the right to vote, but sometimes I'm sorry they have the right to smoke. Most women are messy about it, particularly about their lipstick. I don't mind wiping lipstick off myself, but I hate seeing it on cigarettes, napkins and coffee cups! I don't like women with all their beauty machinery showing-curlers, cold cream, mascara brushes. I'd even prefer to not see a woman touch up her lipstick, but I guess that's expecting too much.”

“Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.”

Different Results Fool Repeats Expecting

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!”

Worst Live Life Expecting Hoping For The Best

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.”

Should Humans Wells Stills Today Sound Right Now Perfection Machines Yeah Programming Expecting

Author:Eddie Vedder

“The folks like myself that do this for a living, we were expecting a regular campaign had built the databases, done all the new social media, learned our lessons from [Barack] Obama whipping us twice on how to do voter contact, and then Donald Trump gets in it and turns it into a national election.”

Done Turns Social Media Trump Lessons Built Election Folks Social Media Campaigns Contact Barack Voters Expecting Databases Whipping

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“I won't be indulging in anger anymore, vehemently and self-righteously singing protest songs, and expecting them to bring peace to me or anyone else.”

Self Song Singing Protest Expecting Protest Songs

Author:Susan Schneider

“One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.”

Problem Careers Drug Drinking Surprise Bitter Drunk Pleasant Sense Of Humor Expecting Pleasant Surprises

Author:Gilbert Gottfried

“You know what's funny about the people who say mean things? There's a certain part of Twitter that is literally shouting into the void, and then sometimes when the void shouts back it's like, "Whoa! I wasn't expecting that. I got called out." And then if you have a conversation, you find out they like something or they like that or they have questions about that.”

People Ifs Knows Mean Sometimes Certain Conversation Void Expecting Like Something Shouting

Author:Alfred Gough

“Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.”

“What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.”

Writing Long Seems Wanted My Own Effort Consciousness Gone Memoir Versions Expecting Sooner Or Later

Author:Kevin Brockmeier

“We need to create schools that are organized to meet the needs of the kids they serve instead of what we've been doing. We expect kids to adjust to the schools and if they can't, we say something is wrong with the child - instead of focusing on engagement and nurturing the love of learning in kids.”

Ifs Needs Children Kids School Education Learning Focus Organized Engagement Expecting Engaging Adjustment Nurturing Children Learning Love Of Learning Joy Of Learning

Author:Pedro Noguera

“I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would have it, keeping peace, in which case they're not there to actively intervene and stop violence? When we send them into these places, do we expect they will respond forcefully?”

Thinking Cases Violence Bigger Traditional Conception Expecting Peacekeepers

Author:Rebecca Hamilton

“Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.”

Way Energy Expecting Toes Shia High Energy

Author:Peter Jacobson

“Basically, when I hear it now, I don't recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And the fact that it didn't seem menacing at first troubled me. Then I thought, What the hey, you know? I'm 66 years old, and I could just crack open a beer and listen to it, and it doesn't trouble me that it doesn't kill. Once upon a time, it probably would have.”

Knows Years Firsts Facts Seems Cases Trouble Hey Beer Cracks Expecting Menace Once Upon A Time Hey You Expecting More

Author:Richard Meltzer

“One time we stayed at a B&B, and there were a couple of hippies who had this nice little area and they let us sleep in their beds that they had in the back.Then the woman suggested we go out and lie on some cushions and look up at the stars and look for UFOs and she said, "You know, I do this all the time," and I was like, "Okay..." So there we are, lying there next to this amazing loch, and we're looking up in the stars and I don't really know what I was expecting, but to see some sort of metallic object.”

Knows Looks Littles Said Lying Next Stars Sleep Nice Objects Couple Bed Areas Okay Look Up One Time Expecting Hippie Ufo Cushions Metallic

Author:Rhys Darby

“I think that it definitely makes the transition easier being able to know linebacker and having also played on the defensive line. You can kind of know what they're expecting on the back end and what you are kind of expecting from them.”

Thinking Knows Kind Ends Able Lines Easier Transition Expecting Linebackers

Author:Justin Cole

“Just wanting to be more of an example, but letting them know also that I made mistakes when I was a kid; and I'm not expecting you to be perfect.”

Knows Made Kids Perfect Mistake Example Expecting Made A Mistake I Made A Mistake

Author:Ginuwine

“But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.”

Film Truth Is Hats Expecting Hats Off

Author:Pete Docter

“They're expecting us to make mistakes, and they've set up a process that allows us to correct for that and do it again and iterate. So I think that's a real key to the films that we've made.”

Thinking Made Real Film Process Mistake Keys Making Mistakes Expecting

Author:Pete Docter

“Of course you have days that are long, you're tired, and things aren't working out, and you can get frustrated, but I would say any of the things that make it less glamorous or cause some complexity or turn you down the road you weren't expecting to go down is a part of the thrill.”

Long Turns Courses Causes Tired Work Out Complexity Expecting Frustrated Thrill Glamorous Down The Road

Author:Ellen Page

“They're not gong to give Hateful Eight its credit now, they'll give it its credit later. Hateful Eight was too long. I think we've indulged Quentin [Tarantino] so much with his monologues. Quentin has this very strong cult following around him and his projects, and people are always expecting so much from him.”

People Thinking Giving Long Strong Projects Following Eight Credit Very Strong Expecting Cult Hateful Monologues Quentin Tarantino Gongs

Author:Bun B

“I knew that Sylvester Stallone's involvement would outweigh everything else from the film. I think people went into Creed expecting a boxing movie and something that superficially ties Stallone in, but Creed was really well written.”

People Thinking Wells Film Written Ties Boxing Expecting Creeds Involvement Well Written

Author:Bun B

“We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.”

Want Love Life Inspirational Motivational Expectations Disappointed Expecting Anticipation

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I wanted to be a disgusting, oozing zombie, not a sexy, cleavage zombie, which is what I was expecting, given my previous film work.”

Wanted Film Given Sexy Expecting Disgusting Zombie Cleavage

Author:Amber Heard

“It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I was not expecting it. When I start singing in the middle of "Baby Get Worse", they go nuts. Just little surprises like that.”

Knows Littles Reason Play Certain Song Know How Middle Huge Baby Singing Surprise Response Nuts Expecting Shiver

Author:John Britt Daniel

“One couldn't even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn't expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.”

Has Beens Found Theory Pure Madness Luck Rewards Persistence Expecting Roughness

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“You don't come up expecting to be a fan favorite. When I was a rookie, I was just trying to make a name for myself, but people already knew who I was and already had expectations for me.”

People Trying Names Fans Expectations Come Up Expecting Rookies

Author:Tim Lincecum

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