Supposed To Be Quotes

• Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Motivational, Stay Strong, Business

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• Here I am, where I am supposed to be.

  Isak Dinesen

  Here I Am

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• Mickey Mouse was supposed to be called Mortimer, but Walt Disney’s wife found it creepy

  Adam Anderson

  Wife, Creepy, Mickey

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• It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the version of yourself that you're supposed to be - like in God's eyes. It doesn't matter if you're half crazy, or eccentric, or whatever it is - that you have to be true to who you were born to be.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Letting Go, Crazy, Eye

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• I've tried that love thing for the last time. My heart says no, no! Nobody's supposed to be here, but you came along and changed my mind

  Deborah Cox

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Heart

  Song: Nobody's Supposed to Be Here, Album: One Wish, 1998

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• Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one eye, he had as much vision as anyone I've ever seen. He'd know instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky, but that didn't bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told Chicago he'd win them a Super Bowl.

  LaVell Edwards

  Leadership, Eye, Cocky

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• Something horrible may have happened to you, but you always have a choice in how you respond to it. You have the "Why does bad stuff always happen to me? I'm never going to find happiness" option, and the "This sucks but I'm going to learn and evolve from it, examine what role I played in it, and ultimately it will help me become the person I'm supposed to be" option.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Choices, Doe

  Jillian Michaels (2011). “Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams”, p.80, Harmony

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• I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

  NeNe Leakes

  Spiritual, Religious, Honey

  "The next Bethenny". Interview with Sean Daly, nypost.com. September 11, 2012.

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• One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal... but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen... This is special and it needs to be seen as special.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Sex, Crazy

  "Rick Santorum Pledges To Defund Contraception: ‘It’s Not Okay, It’s A License To Do Things’". Interview with Shane Vander Hart, thinkprogress.org. October 19, 2011.

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• We are supposed to be liberated in America but if our President [George W. Bush] had his way, we wouldn't be educated about sex at all. Every woman would have six children and we wouldn't be able to have abortions.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Sex, Children, America

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• What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.

  Barbara Sher

  Passion, Heart, Careers

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.18, Dell

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• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  Victoria Jackson

  Reality, Entertainment

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• They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.

  Rick Yune

  Artist, Makeup, Reality

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• I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back.

  Ani DiFranco

  Fall, Remember, Yeah

  Song: Worthy

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• Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Command Not, Order

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• Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts.

  George Lakoff

  People, Political, Enlightenment

  "Why Liberals Lose". Interview with Katy Butler, katybutler.com. December 24, 2003.

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• When a politician states that we are all in the same boat, be on Your guard. Does it mean that YOU are supposed to be doing all the rowing?

  Vilhelm Moberg

  Mean, Historical, Doe

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• Flying for the airlines is not supposed to be an adventure. From takeoff to landing, the autopilots handle the controls. This is routine. In a Boeing as much as an Airbus. And they make better work of it than any pilot can. You're not supposed to be the blue-eyed hero here. Your job is to make decisions, to stay awake, and to know which buttons to push and when. Your job is to manage the systems.

  Bernard Ziegler

  Jobs, Hero, Adventure

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• Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

  Phil McGraw

  Being Yourself, Giving, World

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• A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

  Kathleen Turner

  Tired, Age, Attractive

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

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• You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

  David R. Ellis

  Funny, Home, Character

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

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• Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.

  David Baldacci

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  David Baldacci (2011). “One Summer”, p.169, Pan Macmillan

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• Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.

  Jim Butcher

  Confused, Confusing, Alternatives

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1268, Penguin

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• How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

  Roger Stone

  Party, People, Liberty

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• I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.

  Carl Lewis

  Believe, Media, Typical

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