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“When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.”

Different Beautiful Mother Strong Opinion Grew Grew Up Supposed To Be Cute Very Strong Strong Women Beautiful Women

Author:Cher

“I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.”

People Evil Environment Grew Republican Grew Up Democrat Supposed To Be Racist Detroit Evil People

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what they're supposed to be feeling, when they're supposed to laugh.”

Knows Want Long Feelings Audience Laughing Type Screens Clarity Supposed To Be

Author:Steve Martin

“There's just a big, empty football field that's supposed to be filled with monsters that I haven't even thought of.”

Bigs Havens Fields Football Empty Filled Monsters Supposed To Be Football Field

Author:Rob Letterman

“My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage.”

Thinking Problem Acting Understood Method Traditional Supposed To Be

Author:Tina Fey

“As I go on in standup, I keep being described as cleaner and cleaner as I do each hour, they're like, 'It's unbelievable how clean,' 'He's the cleanest person in the world.' And then I'll do shows and people will be like, 'You're supposed to be so clean, but you're talking about cancer.'”

People World Persons Shows Hours Talking Like You Goes On Clean Cancer Supposed To Be Unbelievable Cleaners

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I think comedians get too much credit or too much criticism for the style of comedy they do, and they generally do the style of comedy that works for them. [...] There's no kind of shrewd calculation going into the type of standup we all do. It's like David Cross is supposed to be doing the David Cross' type of standup.”

Thinking Kind Comedy Too Much Style Type Crosses Criticism Credit Supposed To Be Comedian Calculations

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.”

Remember Easier Who I Am Supposed To Be Dawn Story People

Author:Brian Andreas

“I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.”

Author:Joe Mauer

“I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately. All I have to do is think of me and I have peace of mind. I'm tired of looking 'round rooms wondering what I've got to do or who I'm supposed to be. I don't want to be anything other than me.”

Thinking Want Trying Mind Rooms Wonder Tired Rounds Supposed To Be Peace Of Mind I'm Tired Think Of Me

Author:Gavin DeGraw

“Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.”

Way Film Seeing Profession Supposed To Be Cinema Territory

Author:Leos Carax

“Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.”

Trying Hard Light Fashion Supposed To Be

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking one off a wall. I've never understood why people get butterflies tattooed on their bottoms or whatever. That's really weird.”

People Important Wall Personality Understood Connections Bottom Supposed To Be Butterfly Tattoo Really Weird Tattooed

Author:Ville Valo

“The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.”

Artist Rap Supposed To Be Broke Being Broke Rap Artist

Author:Danny Brown

“You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.”

Thinking Knows Believe Art Left Art Is Don't Believe Supposed To Be Make Sense Listeners

Author:Shelby Lynne

“Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.”

Fiction Pieces Supposed To Be Titles Genre Shops Users Location Bookstores

Author:John Clute

“A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.”

Writing Looks Film Young Fiction Crime Personality Hero Taste Mediums Supposed To Be Lazy Grants Crime Fiction Fiction Writing Protagonists Taste In Music

Author:Peter Temple

“Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.”

Sometimes Impossible Position Supposed To Be Girlfriend Outsiders Economist

Author:Thomas Piketty

“You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.”

Ifs Running Roles Position Fit Versions Supposed To Be Being The Best Do The Best Mold Quarterback

Author:Robert Griffin III

“The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.”

Our Lives Judging Supposed To Be Hospitals Judged Courtroom

Author:Tammy Faye Bakker

“I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be [covering] kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I'm a man playing with the house's money, and that's a dangerous man.”

Men House Dangerous Supposed To Be Kicks Scholarship Covering Detroit Here I Am Dangerous Man

Author:Bart Scott

“When you find yourself on the Internet when you're supposed to be writing, you've already lost. It's even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet.”

Writing Ends Lost Internet Supposed To Be Finding Yourself Procrastination

Author:Noah Baumbach

“After what I have seen, I realize that absolutely anything is possible, and that we did not come here to suffer. Life is supposed to be great, and we are very, very loved. The way I look at life has changed dramatically, and I am so glad to have been given a second chance to experience “heaven on earth”.”

Way Looks Has Beens Earth Life Is Suffering Given Heaven Realizing Chance Changed Glad Supposed To Be Second Chance Anything Is Possible Heaven On Earth Life Has Changed Given A Second Chance

Author:Anita Moorjani

“Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.”

Writing Type Supposed To Be Overlooked Candlelight Compost Touchy Birkenstocks

Author:Nancy Lublin

“Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.”

Ifs World Writing Trying Real Sometimes My Own Brain Music Is Supposed To Be Entertaining Trying To Change

Author:Guy Clark

“The Macintosh was supposed to be the computer for people that just wanted to use a computer without having to learn how to use one.”

People Use Wanted Computer Supposed To Be Macintosh

Author:Steve Jobs

“A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.”

Sometimes Hard Eye Moving Successful Scene Majority Pops Supposed To Be Hard Times Conform Successful Women

Author:Orlan

“Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.”

World Young Girl Boys Dangerous Terrible Equal Adults Ancient Supposed To Be Excess Arrangements Polygamy Ancient History Polyamory

Author:Emily Yoffe

“What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.”

Ifs Thinking Play Lines Audience Comedy Honesty Serious Drama Supposed To Be Distinction Truthful

Author:Barbra Streisand

“If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.”

Ifs Way Courses Acting Doors Cold Okay Supposed To Be Locked

Author:Lea Thompson

“You never know what a movie is going to look like when you're shooting it and you just hope it's going to look like it's supposed to be.”

Knows Looks Supposed To Be Shooting

Author:Sophia Bush

“I sort of have a dark, twisted, offbeat way of writing, which I see coming up in my kids. It's funny, on Halloween, one of my daughters said, "Halloween isn't supposed to be happy, dad, it's supposed to be dark. " No smiling pumpkins at the Sixx household!”

Way Writing Said Kids Dark Dad Daughter Supposed To Be My Daughter Household Halloween Twisted Pumpkin Offbeat Dark Twisted

Author:Nikki Sixx

“That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.”

“When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around.”

Way West East Supposed To Be Iron Curtains Iron Curtain

Author:Rick Falkvinge

“I'm not supposed to be the one that's caught with his pants down.”

Caught Supposed To Be Pants Embarrassment

Author:Robert Towne

“The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.”

Way Doe Self Feelings Turns Process My Own Attention Brain Consciousness Cases Example Particular Supposed To Be Self Conscious Foreheads Self Consciousness

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“... You get surreal numbers by playing games. I used to feel guilty in Cambridge that I spent all day playing games, while I was supposed to be doing mathematics. Then, when I discovered surreal numbers, I realized that playing games IS math.”

Feels Science Used Games Numbers Mathematics Math I Realized Guilty Supposed To Be Surreal Playing Games Cambridge

Author:John Horton Conway

“And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.”

Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

“People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.”

People Important Power Supposed To Be Tragic Powerless Old People

Author:Maggie Kuhn

“The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.”

“To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.”

Men Writing Language Natural Subjects Every Man Supposed To Be Natural Science

Book:The Methods of Historical Study: Eight Lectures Read in the University of Oxford In...1884, with the Inaugural Lecture on The Office of the Historical Professor

Source: The Methods of Historical Study: Eight Lectures Read in the University of Oxford In...1884, with the Inaugural Lecture on The Office of the Historical Professor

“Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous problems, for it is supposed to be carried out as if women did not have needs of their own, as if one could serve others without simultaneously attending to one's own interests and desires. Carried to its "perfection," it produces the martyr syndrome or the smothering wife and mother.”

Source: Toward a New Psychology of Women

“I don't think I gave a good enough performance to be nominated for it. I thought I gave a fine performance, but those things are supposed to be about giving an extraordinary performance.”

Thinking Giving Enough Fine Performances Extraordinary Supposed To Be Good Enough

Author:Paul Giamatti

“Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.”

Trying Deals Generations Concern Environmental Nuclear Disaster Supposed To Be Our Generation

Author:Michael Stipe

“Since when is the intelligence agency supposed to be an air force of drones that goes around killing people? I believe that it's a job for the department of defense.”

People Believe Jobs Force I Believe Air Killing Defense Supposed To Be Agency Department Air Force Drones Intelligence Agencies

Author:John McCain

“Everyone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders. They're supposed to be grateful. They can never for a moment not be afforded this wonderful protection. The father who will never go away. The father who will never quit caring for them.”

Children Moments Father Wonderful Authority Grateful Caring Protection Quitting Supposed To Be Iran Going Away Be Grateful Sufi Council Elders Never Quit Guardian

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us...regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.”

Wanted Past Felt Born Natural Lines Beats Window Currents Boat Supposed To Be Grain

Author:Chrissy Costanza

“When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.”

Loss Environment Pages Species Supposed To Be Reports Grades Seventh Grade

Author:Woody Harrelson

“The internet is shared critical infrastructure for everyone on earth. It's not supposed to be a domain of warfare. We're not supposed to be putting the Unied States' economy on the frontlines in the battleground.”

States Earth Economy Internet Critical Supposed To Be Warfare Infrastructure Domain Battleground Frontline

Author:Edward Snowden

“My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.”

Real Character Sentences Real Life Bunch Supposed To Be

Author:Zach Galifianakis