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• I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Player, College

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• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  L. Neil Smith

  Believe, Government, Hands

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• There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

  Jimmy Smits

  Jobs, Giving Up, Practice

  Interview with Lisa Manafian, www.hispanic-today.com. September 08, 2011.

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• Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

  Joseph Sobran

  Father, Government, Empathy

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• I look up to my brother - he inspires me so much. He has always been my best friend. He knows everything. I left the house at 16 when I auditioned for 'American Idol' and he was 14. It was one of those things that was so sudden and neither of us expected it. He has been so supportive of me even though I know that every time I leave, it hurts him.

  Jordin Sparks

  Friendship, Hurt, Brother

  "Jordin Sparks Shares Her Secrets!". The Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Standards, Disappointed

  "Spitzer Doesn't Deny Tie to Prostitution Ring". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. March 10, 2008.

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• I'm expected to do what's right; I want to leave a legacy of positivity behind.

  Angie Stone

  Positivity, Want, Legacy

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• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

  Tacitus

  Fear, Perfect, Doe

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• The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance.

  Lewis Thomas

  Ignorance, Medicine, Doctors

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• We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Looks, Morality, Natural

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.114, Fig

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• All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.

  Donald Trump

  Flirting, Hate Him, Real Women

  Donald J. Trump, Meredith McIver (2004). “Trump: How to Get Rich”, p.223, Random House

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• I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

  Vera Wang

  Mother, School, Training

  "The Vera Wang Interview: Made of Honor" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.

  Dionne Warwick

  Latin, Men, America

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• A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

  Paul Watzlawick

  Self, Events, Causes

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• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

  Jacki Weaver

  Jobs, Challenges, New Job

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

  Arabella Weir

  Father, Sibling, School

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• I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

  Lawrence Welk

  Brother, Father, Farmers

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1971). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Work, Simple, Dedication

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• Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

  Loretta Young

  Fashion, Character, Should

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• Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

  Felix Dennis

  Running, New Ventures, Entrepreneur

  Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.31, Penguin

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• We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

  Romola Garai

  Children, Adults

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• I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.

  Erin Wasson

  Stylist, Designer, Models

  "Erin Wasson: Miss Start-of-Winter Pick-Me-Up". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. December 22, 2010.

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• Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.

  Frances Mayes

  Memories, Forever, Spots

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• Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.

  Mark Helprin

  Life, Sleep, Years

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Motor Oil, Years, Feet

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.124, W. W. Norton & Company

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