Expecting Quotes - Page 12

• We definitely sometimes get stuff that's different that we were expecting. I mean, that's part of the joy and the terror of interviewing real, live people. Sometimes they come along the journey with you, and most of the time they don't.

  Samantha Bee

  Real, Mean, Journey

  Source: tv.avclub.com

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• The American people are not expecting miracles. I think if you talk to the average person right now that they would say, 'Well, look, you know well, we're having a tough time right now. We've had tough times before.' 'And you know, we don't expect a new president can snap his fingers and suddenly everything is gonna be okay. But what we do expect is that the guy is gonna be straight with us. We do expect that he's gonna be working really hard for us.'

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• For the longest time, I was just playing music and not really expecting any success - just kind of doing it because I liked doing it. While doing that, I went on a lot of shitty tours, playing to nobody, so I think it makes me appreciate it. Our band the New Pornographers have been popular for a few years now, but it still shocks me. I remember thinking we were hugely popular when we sold 15,000 records, and now this one sold 30,000 in two weeks. I'm grateful for the whole thing.

  A.C. Newman

  Grateful, Thinking, Appreciate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My parents' deportation gave me so much strength to keep on moving forward, because any type of failure - whether in school or with jobs or rejection from a casting office - nothing could be as bad as what I had already gone through. Nothing could be worse than coming home expecting to see your loving parents and them not being there.

  Diane Guerrero

  Moving, Home, School

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• A lot of good things can come from not expecting anything.

  Scott Aukerman

  Good Things

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I'm not angry. Everybody thinks I'm so angry because I have a point of view. They're expecting me to just be all Smucker's Jam.

  Billy West

  Thinking, Point Of View

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It bothers me when people, say, you know, write for, you know, a web publication and get paid little or nothing or, you know, expecting to, like, read the best newspapers in the world and not pay a cent for it. Those newspapers need money in order to operate.

  Terry Gross

  Writing, Order, People

  "How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, ksmu.org. October 17, 2016.

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• Certainly nobody gets married wanting to get divorced or even expecting to - except me.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Married, Divorced

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Buddhism is the most active one! The whole time, we're dealing with the mind and how to tame it, and how to transcend our ordinary conventional mind. This takes an enormous amount of determination and perseverance. It also requires an attitude of being relaxed and spacious, rather than tense and stressed. It's certainly not a matter of lying back and expecting it all to happen. If we don't make it happen, it won't!

  Tenzin Palmo

  Perseverance, Determination, Attitude

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Goal, Secret

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• That was the reason why very few people fleeing the rise of fascism in Europe, especially in Germany, could get to the United States. And there were famous incidents like with the MS Saint Louis, which brought a lot of immigrants, mostly Jewish, from Europe. It reached Cuba, with people expecting to be admitted to the United States from there. But the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt wouldn't allow them in and they had to go back to Europe where many of them died in concentration camps.

  Noam Chomsky

  Europe, People, Fleeing

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I think continued actions by Bashar al-Assad clearly call into any question of him expecting to have any legitimacy to continue as the leader of Syria. With each of those actions, like attack with conventional weapons, barrel bombs and block humanitarian aid he really undermines his own legitimacy.

  Rex W. Tillerson

  Block, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I had some pretty weird fan mail growing up, sometimes from prison and wherever else. Nothing too intense. Some superfans that maybe went a little overboard with gifts and whatnot, expecting something other than what it could be with a kid. That's a little weird. But at the same time, it's like, "Hey, I'm getting free video games. I'm not going to return it if you sent it!" Thankfully we never felt unsafe.

  Lindsey Haun

  Growing Up, Kids, Sometimes

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• You don't put an animal in the corner without the animal striking back, you don't put a politician in the corner and without them expecting to strike back at you.

  John Kasich

  Animal, Politician

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Winning, People, Failing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You wouldn't go to the theater expecting to see an old-fashioned "Hamlet" where everybody wears an old fashioned costume. You don't get points for putting on a "Hamlet" where everybody dresses in black. I've seen that one several times. But again, it's not that it has to be new, it simply that it has to be different, fresh, that it doesn't bore, that it doesn't make me - I don't feel as I'm watching it that I know where it's going to go.

  Terry Teachout

  Black, Different, Problem

  Source: bigthink.com

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• While acting in Armed Response I was always focused, just so they could see me as a peer and maybe not some idiot who's coming in from the pro-wrestling world. I'm sure they had their preconceived notions about me so I just hope that once we were finished with a scene, or finished with the movie overall, that I managed to change their perspective based on what they were expecting.

  Seth Rollins

  Perspective, Acting, World

  Source: www.ign.com

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• You always have to be ahead of the audience so that they have to always catch up and know the movie's not quite going exactly where you think it's going, or expecting it to be going.

  Todd Solondz

  Thinking, Audience

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Oh, my god. I'd be a terrible doctor. I don't like to touch other people. There's a lot of gruesome stuff in my line of work to feel or to admit. I'm sure everyone's expecting me to say "proctologist," but actually no, I don't want to be a proctologist. Probably want to be a dentist, because you don't have to touch much of the other person's body, just their face or mouth.

  Dan Savage

  People, Dentist, Terrible

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My own disposition is to trust the reader. Of course, there's a line between trusting the reader and expecting her to read your mind. That's where a friend or an editor comes in. A great editor will tell you straight when you've drifted into the latter territory.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Mind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Expectations, Want

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it. That's what a sellout is to me.

  Marc Jacobs

  Names, People, Pieces

  Interview with Robert Duffy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 17, 2010.

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• I find that it's easier to disguise yourself when you go to Florida or places like that, because no one is expecting to see a celebrity there. When you throw on a hat and glasses, no one really looks at you twice - because why would you be in Florida? People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

  Megan Fox

  Florida, Glasses, People

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 22, 2010.

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• There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.

  Dave Barry

  People, Age, There Comes A Time

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• There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Father, Weather

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

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