“To go from the vision that we would all be free to express ourselves creatively because our material needs were being met, to this reality where nobody has money, people are unemployed, and the machines are harnessed by the lucky guys who Facebook or Google and we're supposed to be happy just to contribute content to their site.” PeopleNeedsRealityGuyVisionMaterialsMetsLuckyMachinesSupposed To BeGoogleSiteBeing MeUnemployedLucky Guy Author:Astra Taylor
“You know, in Hollywood you know when somebody is getting pregnant. It's supposed to be this beautiful scene: the rays are coming in and you have these beautiful perfect bodies lying on top of each other and there's the room glowing in one person's eyes and the sun coming up over the other person's shoulder.” KnowsPersonsBodyEyeBeautifulLyingPerfectRoomsSunSceneHollywoodShouldersSupposed To BeRaysPregnantGlowing Author:Staceyann Chin
“In China, it was always said that a double-digit rate of growth would be dangerous. Now, the country has a growth rate of 6.9 percent and suddenly that is supposed to be a catastrophe for the global economy.” SaidCountryWould BeGrowthEconomyDangerousPercentRateChinaSupposed To BeCatastropheGlobal Economy Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that the establishment, moderate wing of the party has sidelined itself. They're not coalescing around one candidate as they have in the past.” PastPartyRepublicanWingsExtraordinarySupposed To BePrimariesCandidatesEstablishmentModeratesExtraordinary Things Author:Mara Liasson
“A lot of what we say and do are regurgitated things that have to do with what we think we're supposed to be saying and doing.” ThinkingSupposed To BeSaying And Doing Author:Boots Riley
“Authentic and free. The Gucci guilty woman is about living in the moment. She's a modern woman, someone who really owns herself and her sensuality. It's supposed to be a very empowering and sensual fragrance.” MomentsModernGuiltySensualitySensualSupposed To BeEmpoweringLive In The MomentFragranceGucciModern Woman Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“Ayahuasca is a brew that's made from the vine, which is the hallucinogenic element. And then there's also this leaf from a bush. And the vine is supposed to be the masculine and the bush is supposed to be the feminine, and this female shaman did a tea drinking ceremony with us, where we drank Wyoosa. And the intention was to go and find pieces of your soul that were missing and bring them back to your body so you could live more fully with yourself and it's called soul retrieval.” MadeSoulBodyPiecesMissingElementsFemaleIntentionDrinkingYour BodySupposed To BeTeaYour SoulFeminineLeafsMasculineCeremonyDrankVinesAyahuascaTea Drinking Author:Larkin Grimm
“The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's.” SecurityPolicyFieldsPositionDebateSupposed To BeInternalsBalancedNational SecurityOpen MindOpen MindedAdviserPlaying FieldsArbiter Author:Seymour Hersh
“I felt like I was cheating myself of those communities and cheating the audience because I wasn't able to know them. That's what the bikes did, without me having to put any arbitrary philosophy on what it was supposed to be. It enabled human connection.” KnowsHumansPhilosophyAbleFeltCommunityAudienceConnectionsSupposed To BeCheatingBikeArbitraryHuman Connection Author:Ben Sollee
“I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing. It is in my soul to spread love and laughter. Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.” IfsSoulWould BeLaughterSpreadActressesMy SoulSupposed To BeComedianLove And LaughterSpreading Love Author:Kim Coles
“They say you get nauseous in a green screen room, but I haven't yet. It's a little odd playing pretend with props and monitors that we're supposed to be watching, but I'll get used to it.” LittlesUsedRoomsHavensGreenScreensSupposed To BeOddProps Author:Laura Vandervoort
“I love everybody that's with me. All these dudes from Paterson - nothing happen to none of us. We won't go to jail. I make sure we don't. We don't stand on no corners. Ain't nobody carrying when they ain't supposed to be carrying. We don't pose with guns in the videos; we don't leave guns in the house. You'll never see Fetty Wap posting no videos with no guns.” HappensHouseGunCornersThings HappenVideoSupposed To BeJail Author:Fetty Wap
“You know, where have you - what have you been doing? You know, and you find yourself sitting next to Jesus, and he's rather an agreeable man. And you have an opportunity to say, so what went down then, you know, that night? And it's supposed to be like him just sort of telling you very conversationally. That was the idea I had. Whether it - whether it comes - came off or not, I don't know.” KnowsMenIdeasNightNextOpportunityJesusSittingSupposed To BeFinding YourselfDoing You Author:Nick Lowe
“The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.” ArtMadeShowsSeemsArtistViewsDesignObjectsBuildingMaterialsOrdinaryCaughtHumbleStatementsObsessionSupposed To BeMuseumsUnusualQuartersGood WorkRepetitionTriggersCouchesDebutNecklacesHandgunsReuse Author:Jerry Saltz
“People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.” PeopleExcellencePopsComplainingSupposed To BeContests Author:Emily Lazar
“There is no significance of God in my life, God is my life. I would not be, without God. I am supposed to be dead.” Supposed To BeSignificanceWithout God Author:Danny Trejo
“You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but then the Army finally gets a bead on him and they shoot a missile at him and he blows up and dies, and that's not what Godzilla is. Godzilla is supposed to be a thing that you can't possibly kill, no matter how hard you try.” KnowsTryingMatterHardFilmDiesOrdinaryArmyBlowSupposed To BeMissilesBeadsGodzilla Author:Brad Warner
“Everybody has similar values. You travel around the world and everybody is different, but everybody is also the same in those ways. There's so much difference but there's so much similarity. Nobody wants to be harmed, or have their children, or their mates, or their relatives, or their families harmed, exploited, bombed, starved, dislocated, or become homeless refugees. So we're all similar in that way and spiritual life and religion is supposed to be part of the solution not part of the problem.” WorldWayWantChildrenDifferentProblemSpiritualValuesDifferencesSolutionsAround The WorldSupposed To BeMatesSpiritual LifeHomelessRefugeeSimilarity Author:Surya Das
“Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.” WalksLevelsFamePhonesCellsSupposed To BeCell PhoneJasonSneakyBourne Author:Ato Essandoh
“Basically for everything that comes out of Five Four, I've come up with the idea or changed it in some way. I'm also working with Putnam Accessory Group, a private label hat manufacturer. I'm in the process of re-branding a line they have called Chuck. It was mostly hats and bags, but I'm adding apparel and eyewear and whatever I feel like adding to turn it more into a brand. I'm supposed to be working with Pharrell on Billionaire Boys Club, but that's on hold.” WayFeelsIdeasTurnsProcessLinesBoysFiveFourGroupsChangedCome UpClubsBrandsLabelsSupposed To BeHatsBagsBrandingBillionaireChuckAccessoriesApparelEyewear Author:Mark McNairy
“Actually there's a very bad trend in some cults about how Guru's are supposed to be mean to their students, and there are some who revel in this and are abusive.” MeanStudentsSupposed To BeTrendsCultGuruAbusive Author:Robert Thurman
“Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age.” PlayAgeLastsMinutesHeroBrilliantSupposed To BeBrokeMy HeroLast Minute Author:Winona Ryder
“I've learned that I can only live for myself. I cannot be focused on the world's idea of who they think I am or who I'm supposed to be. I can only be the best me. And if that means that even though I seem eligible and should be in a relationship, maybe I shouldn't be right now, because I am not emotionally available. It's knowing yourself and being more in tune with who you are vs. who the world wants you to be.” IfsThinkingWorldWantShouldMeanI CanIdeasSeemsKnowingRight NowWho You AreAvailableFocusedSupposed To BeI've LearnedBeing The BestTunesKnow Yourself Author:Eva Marcille
“I have the belief that we are all created to be unique. We are supposed to be different and do those things that made us who we are.” MadeDifferentBeliefUniqueSupposed To BeWho We Are Author:Atticus Shaffer
“People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.” PeopleThinkingEmotionalCaringSupposed To BeSensitive Author:Vince Staples
“If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that was probably not, even though it's supposed to be a really big archangel. He describes it as - the Archangel Gabriel as standing on the horizon and filling the sky. That's a big angel.” IfsBigsNextAnswersSkyMountainAngelStandingSupposed To BeProphetHorizonFillingGabrielArchangel Author:Salman Rushdie
“I was born an ugly duckling due to my mother's ill health. She wasn't supposed to be pregnant, there were all kinds of complications, she couldn't survive a cesarean section etc. She said, "They didn't hand me a child, they handed me a purple melon." I heard that when I had grown up and had no idea of the whole story because the family album had pictures of a covered carriage and my mother smiling so I assumed I was asleep.” KindChildrenSaidIdeasWholeStoriesHandsMotherBornHeardIllAlbumsUglyDuesAll KindsSupposed To BeNo IdeaEtcCoveredPregnantSectionsPurpleComplicationCarriagesIll HealthMelonsDucklingsUgly DucklingCesarean Author:Bernie Siegel
“When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.” IdeasValuesLostLosingSupposed To BeLosing Myself Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about me is the way." "Our way of worship, the Christian structure, is not the way," [he would say,] "I am. I am. If you want to know what life is all about, what it's supposed to be, where it's supposed to go, where it's supposed to derive its strength from, don't look at anything people say about me. Don't look at the faith that's been created. Look at my life, which is a life ultimately of sacrificial love."” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWantLooksChristianLife IsJesusNamesWorshipStructureSupposed To BeSacrificial Love Author:Frederick Buechner
“Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.” WorldSubjectsRocksMindfulnessIndependenceSupposed To BeCorporateIndie Rock Author:Justin Vernon
“Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is coherent, trust that was the best writing advice I ever got (I got it from Carole Maso and I pass it on). It's true, and clearer and clearer as one grows and gains an improved sense of who one actually is (as versus who one was supposed to be).” IfsWritingMindTogetherGrowsGriefWrittenAdviceFitShapesGainsComplicatedSupposed To BeVersusWriting AdviceComplicated Grief Author:Laura Mullen
“I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy that would play my husband. At this time, I had been up for three days doing coke and was playing solitaire in my closet.” PlayGuyThreeRocksHusbandPicksBottomStudiosScreensSupposed To BeMy HusbandClosetsTestingBridesCokeBrady Author:Maureen McCormick
“No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.” ChildrenPresidentParticularEnglandSupposed To BeTraits Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Combining the lack of emotional literacy they may be imbued with, with the fact that if you're black you're not supposed to be that smart and if you... as a boy you're not even supposed to like school. All of the sudden you've got kids who are afraid, black kids and Latino kids who are afraid to be great, afraid to bask in the enjoyment of education, lest they be labeled less than black, less than Latino, less they be called the oreo.” IfsMayFactsKidsSchoolBlackBoysEmotionalSmartSupposed To BeEnjoymentLiteracyLatinoCombiningOreosEmotional Literacy Author:John Amaechi
“I think that one of the things about music is it's supposed to be spontaneous, it's supposed to be real human beings bouncing off of each other whether its from the stage or to the audience, or jamming with friends.” ThinkingHumansRealHuman BeingsAudienceStageMusic IsSupposed To BeBeing RealSpontaneousReal HumanBe Spontaneous Author:Tod Machover
“Pages were always supposed to be off-camera - we were supposed to be invisible. But I had a moment where I saw a kid who was ready to flip himself out of the balcony, so I ran down and grabbed him and put him back in his seat. I remember the stage manager taking me aside and saying, "Can you please never do that again? I know you were saving his life, but we have you in the shot."” KnowsMomentsKidsRememberSawsStageReadyPleasePagesShotsDown AndCamerasInvisibleSavingManagersSupposed To BeRanSeatsFlipBalconiesStage Managers Author:Anne Sweeney
“Who says that your thirties is when you're supposed to be done? I would like to know who made that rule!” KnowsMadeDoneSupposed To Be Author:Serena Williams
“Let's say Donald Trump loses but it's close. That could change the whole way the job of being a politician shifts - that to succeed in politics, you have to be a caricature of what a politician is supposed to be like.” WayWholeJobsLosesTrumpPoliticianSucceedSupposed To BeCaricatures Author:Chuck Klosterman
“If you come over to my house, I've had a lot of people be like 'Hey...did you mean to put these in the dishwasher?' And I'm like, no they're actually supposed to be in the freezer because I use them to get rid of under-eye bags when I wake up early in the morning.” PeopleIfsMeanUseEyeHouseMorningWake UpHeySupposed To BeBagsUp EarlyDishwashersFreezer Author:Shay Mitchell
“A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.” PeopleCompanyTeamFootballSupposed To BeLove Each OtherFootball Team Author:Emmanuel Petit
“We're always supposed to be happy and positive. There's something about letting yourself slip into that vulnerable space because you can really feel things there. It helps you grow as a person. I tend to enjoy being in a vulnerable space, in a weird way.” WayFeelsPersonsHelpingGrowsEnjoySpaceVulnerableSupposed To BeSlips Author:Tristan Prettyman
“When I see someone either break free from the grips of the food industry, leave their job for something more meaningful, or start to be in a relationship that really helps them become who they're supposed to be, that inspires me.” HelpingJobsBreakInspireIndustryMeaningfulSupposed To BeFood Industry Author:Vani Hari
“I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.” ThinkingWarFactsFightingColdCriticsSupposed To BeCold WarConformist Author:Malcolm Muggeridge
“It feels like it is a daily work and an ongoing task to undo all of the f - - g programming that I have had all my life about who I am supposed to be and how I'm supposed to look and that I'm supposed to win. It's a daily deconstruction of all that bullshit.” FeelsLooksWinningTasksWho I AmSupposed To BeProgrammingBullshitOngoingDeconstructionDaily Work Author:Amanda Palmer
“Bill Clinton became president, and he [Bill Clinton] kept cheating - and she kept destroying the women. She was supposed to be paid off in 2008. They gave her health care; she botched that. Hillarycare, it was called in 1993, '94, whatever. That was her first payoff. Co-presidency was the next payoff.” FirstsCareNextPresidentPaidBillsClintonSupposed To BeHealth CareCheatingDestroyingPresidencyPayoffPaid Off Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I am doing what I am supposed to be doing right now. I smile knowing that I have the most wonderful husband, family, and friends. I work with friends whom I can learn from and whom I respect and who respect me.” I CanKnowingWonderfulRight NowHusbandSupposed To BeFamily And FriendsI SmileDoing RightRespect MeWonderful Husband Author:Daphne Oz
“A lot of people don't understand the building phase. They don't have the blueprint, but we do. With us having the blueprint and knowing what we want to build, it's not how it's supposed to be built, but what we want to build. I think it makes everything easy for us to stay focus and have that tunnel vision.” PeopleThinkingWantEasyVisionKnowingFocusBuildingBuiltSupposed To BePhasesTunnelsBlueprintsTunnel Vision Author:B.J. The Chicago Kid
“Whales, like elephants, are so social and intelligent. This hurts me to think of them being transported, put in noisy airplanes, and brought to a horrible concrete pen when they're supposed to be out in the sea.” ThinkingSocialHurtSeaIntelligentHorribleSupposed To BePensAirplaneConcreteElephantsWhalesHurt MeNoisy Author:Jane Goodall
“I do what I do because there's nothing else for me to do. This is what I'm supposed to be doing.” Supposed To Be Author:Kim Coles
“Just as the seasons change and the honey bees pollinate the planet and make honey, we are also doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. We also are apart of nature, certainly not separate from nature.” PlanetsSeasonsSupposed To BeHoneyBeesHoney BeeSeasons Change Author:Bryan Kest