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• The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

  Amy Ray

  Kids, Hypocrisy, Community

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• I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mean, People, May

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• Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered.

  Edgar Cayce

  Prayer, Ifs, Our Prayers

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• The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued.

  Ronald Reagan

  Block, Organization, Issues

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “Renewing the U.S. commitment to peace: September 26, 1983”

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• Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

  Robert Henri

  Firsts, Surprise, Shock

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.

  Henry George

  Spring, Real, Past

  "Progress and Poverty". Book by Henry George, 1879.

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• In an attempt to help me move on from my failed marriage, my mom set me up with Jesus Freak. In fact, the stoner hadn't even finished moving out when she told me not to worry, because she already had someone better lined up for me. I was just lonely and desperate enough to endure a four-month celibate long distance relationship with a guy who read 15 chapters of the Bible and prayed for two hours every day and expected me to follow suit. He wanted to give our hypothetical children Bible names and for us to move to Korea to become missionaries.

  Kate Madison

  Mom, Long Distance Relationship, Lonely

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• I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.

  Clayton Christensen

  Running, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Writing, Artist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's all gravy when everything's great, but if there comes a point where there's a problem, as with any kind of relationship you need to fix it. There's always going to be something, and it could be the smallest detail you'd never have expected or it could be something substantial, but it's how you deal with things.

  Erol Alkan

  Details, Needs, Kind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I feel like there's no such thing as failure. When something doesn't go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and I accomplish more than I initially expected to.

  Thomas Jones

  Want, Way, Accomplish

  "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I never thought in a million years that I'd ever sell out back-to-back shows at The Garden. That's not to say, I never expected my career to take off. Still, it was a "Pinch Me, Wake Me Up" moment. I was like, "Wow! I can't believe this. That I'm actually here, and this is actually happening." And in that moment, when I was about to thank my fans for supporting me, I noticed that they were standing up clapping. It was overwhelming, and became a very emotional moment when I tried to thank them.

  Kevin Hart

  Believe, Emotional, Garden

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• Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.

  Mike Tyson

  Live Life, School, Kids

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

  Massimiliano Gioni

  Art, Narrative, Entertainment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

  Alan Rickman

  Impact, Play, Careers

  "Alan Rickman: The Empire Interview". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.empireonline.com. January 14, 2016.

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• The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.

  Michael Hastings

  People, Decision, Listening

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.

  Astra Taylor

  People, Vision, Building

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Father, Grandmother, Betrayed

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You work so hard at something to make sure that it's very pure and very genuine and very steadfast to who you are, so creative control for me is a big one. Thankfully, I've been able to retain 98% of it which I never really expected, so I'm very grateful to be able to control what I can.

  Adam Young

  Grateful, Creative, Able

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• There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Something is always lost in translation; we know instinctively that this is the case. A Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Latin, America, Radio

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I tend to think that the onus is on the writer to engage the reader, that the reader should not be expected to need the writer, that the writer has to prove it. All that stuff might add up to a kind of fun in the work. I like things that are about interesting subjects, which sounds self-evident.

  Lorin Stein

  Fun, Thinking, Self

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm more thrilled by the short fiction than I expected to be. I've found more pleasure in reading short fiction than I used to. By seeing what kinds of thinking are going on in short fiction. I was also surprised by the panic I've felt, especially at first, when we'd put an issue to bed and then realized we had to put another one together.

  Lorin Stein

  Reading, Thinking, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've been very fortunate in my art career. It's something I would never have expected.

  Marcel Dzama

  Art, Careers, Fortunate

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mother, Encouragement, Jobs

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

  David Sedaris

  Book, Writing, Twenties

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