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• I think it's important to have a consistent communication with the fans but I don't think it should be expected.

  Beau Bokan

  Communication, Thinking, Important

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• A lot of producers always say "what direction are you going in?" and I don't know. I'm just doing music. Right now it's going well. It's a little slow, but it's expected because I haven't been in the studio for a minute.

  Ginuwine

  Littles, Minutes, Producers

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.

  Yanis Varoufakis

  Bankers, Debtors, Loan

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I have begun to regard everything as more of a process so that the sense of right and wrong diminishes in my psyche. That's been healthy for me and makes everything so much more fun. If something does not quite work out as expected or planned, I simply look for what did work, what I learned from the situation, and really try to keep it moving forward.

  Erica Tazel

  Fun, Moving, Work Out

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• I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.

  Amanda Schull

  Hard Work, Thinking, Doe

  "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There was a time when only men could provide or work, and still a lot of countries are like that. But there's a price to be paid for that when you're expected to be the full-time caretaker and you're expected to be the full-time breadwinner.

  Patricia Arquette

  Country, Men, Breadwinner

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• It was so incredible to be able to get the opportunity to make my own first album. I never expected to do that.

  Corbin Bleu

  Opportunity, Albums, Able

  "New Corbin Bleu Interview". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2007.

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• We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

  Junot Diaz

  Long, Different, Accepted

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters just to see people in the theater watching the movie, and it was incredibly gratifying just to see the thing out there being watched by people. And the reaction was more than we could've expected.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, Couple, War

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I rather think he did. I don't think he expected an attack on Pearl Harbor. I think he expected an attack on Southeast Asia. But we were attacked at Pearl Harbor

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Important, Pearls

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Japan is formally apologizing and admitting the state was responsible for the system of comfort stations or brothels for soldiers in which mostly teenage girls were expected to service 60 to 70 men a day. That is from a U.N. report.

  Elise Hu

  Girl, Teenage, Men

  "South Korea, Japan Reach Major Deal On Wartime Sex Slaves". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 28, 2015.

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• What I do believe happens in a lot of these cases is that we somehow want to place blame on the victim for their behavior or that they brought it upon themself. As law enforcement official, you are held to a higher standard. You are expected to execute your job in that regard.

  Sharon Cooper

  Jobs, Believe, Law

  "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• Back then, you seemed like a crazy person when you were trying to push the boundaries of network TV. People looked at you, and they were offended by the fact that you didn't follow the generic rules of what was expected on network TV.

  Judd Apatow

  Crazy, People, Trying

  "Judd Apatow: ‘Love’ was made for the Netflix binge, and ‘Girls’ should be weekly". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Ted Cruz has struggled, and Donald Trump, of course, has been the big winner the last two outings. And the polling that we have, some of it is a week old. In fact, I think that's the latest poll suggests that he has a strong lead here. And therefore should be expected to win.

  Brit Hume

  Strong, Thinking, Winning

  "Brit Hume provides perspective on Nevada caucuses; Are Rubio's big-name GOP endorsements enough?". "The Kelly File" with Megyn Kelly, www.foxnews.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives: play by the rules, and do what is expected. But as much social science research and writing by Malcolm Gladwell, among others, make clear, the rules are mostly created by those already in power so obtaining power often entails standing out and breaking rules and social conventions.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Writing, Successful, Play

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Aussie culture is pretty relaxed in general, but at the same time people know how to work really hard to go above and beyond what's expected of them.

  Keiynan Lonsdale

  People, Culture, Above And Beyond

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• I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.

  David Livermore

  School, Giving, Degrees

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I try my very hardest to remember that I don't have to be anything but Evangeline. That's all that's expected of me. And if I try to be more or less, I will fall flat on my face. So if I just continue to hold my head high and keep myself in check, I'm being who I was born to be.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Fall, Trying, Faces

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mom, Jobs, Dad

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a lot of trying to move freight with a pallet jack - literally trying to shove a one-ton cube of books into a tiny space.

  Ian Christe

  Moving, Book, Space

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People have taught me what most doctors don't learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they're doing very well and to keep it up. I learned to say, "You didn't die when you were supposed to so what's going on?", and they always had a story to tell me.

  Bernie Siegel

  Doctors, People, Doe

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I've said before: If Osama bin Laden was a Christian, Iraq was the Christmas present he always wanted but never expected his parents to give. It validated for the Muslim world virtually all of bin Laden's rhetoric. He had always said the Americans will destroy any strong Muslim regime, and we did.

  Michael Scheuer

  Christian, Strong, Iraq

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.

  Questlove

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Doors, Ethnicity, Color

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Multimedia, Music Is

  Source: pitchfork.com

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