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• The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

  Errol Flynn

  Playboy, Decent, Chaps

  Quoted in Gary Herman The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979).

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• This limited theatrical release was a nice little bonus that I never expected.

  Rob Corddry

  Nice, Bonus, Littles

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2006.

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• Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

  Jodi Rell

  Jobs, Salary, Use

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• Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Film

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• We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?

  Ellen Goodman

  Mother, Distance, Father

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Thinking, People, Wow

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• The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach.

  Lee Iacocca

  Top Management, People, Guy

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• Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

  Robert Smithson

  Artist, Fit, Categories

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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• If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

  Harriet Martineau

  Love, Running, Country

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.163

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• I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound and knowing the music business the way I do - all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.

  Barry White

  Business, Careers, Knowing

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

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• Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum.

  George Clymer

  Abolition Of Slavery, Next, Constitution

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• We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.

  Stuart Rose

  Growth, Bits

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• The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

  John McKinley

  Technology, Aquariums, Class

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• The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

  Michael Scheuer

  Christmas, Christian, War

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• Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

  James F. Byrnes

  War, Germany, Cost

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• In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Firsts, Language, Film

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• I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

  Kate Adie

  Girl, Teacher, Nice

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• All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Successful, Men, Thinking

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was so naive I didn't even know about agents. I telephoned the William Morris agency and asked to speak to Mr. Morris. I expected Bill Morris to be waiting for my call.

  Kirstie Alley

  Agency, Waiting, Agents

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• I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

  Neil Armstrong

  Astronaut, Century, Ends

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• The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

  Jim Bishop

  Stories, Facts, Prisoner

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• Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

  Roald Dahl

  Pain, Doctors, Knives

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Boy and Going Solo”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

  Frederick Douglass

  Literature, Slavery, Politics

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Understanding, Principles

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.216, Harvard University Press

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• I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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