Supposed To Be Quotes - Page 10

• I was supposed to be a romancer, either wooing the leading lady or competing with the leading man for her.

  Cesar Romero

  Men, Leading Ladies, Competing

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• I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.

  Lily Rabe

  Jobs, Reading, Thinking

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

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• If you're coming from America to Iraq, then how are you supposed to be objective? I mean, you could pay lip service to being objective, but how are you going to objective when you're embedded with the Marines? The Marines are saving your life every day and they're protecting you.

  Shane Smith

  Mean, Marine, Iraq

  Interview with Spike Jonze, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2013.

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• I don't like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

  Alan Sugar

  Friday, Night, Comedy

  "Sir Alan will see you now". Interview with Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2009.

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• I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Class, People, Champion

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• I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

  David Sanborn

  Play, Way, Natural

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• Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

  Hedi Slimane

  Men, Thinking, Littles

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• So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

  Jane Siberry

  Years, Goal, Trying

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• If someone else is supposed to be in your life, they will be in your life - you can't stop them from coming if its the will of eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Eternity, Sexuality

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• I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

  Kate Voegele

  Elbows, Impossible, Knows

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• A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

  Jack Vance

  Stories, Environment, Reader

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• When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

  Charlie Watts

  Sex, Thinking, Rocks

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• The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.

  George Weah

  Country, Believe, Rights

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• I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, New York, Mean

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• When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.

  Nick Lowe

  Rocks, Musical, Punk

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• If you've attended the Cordon Bleu, you would know that no woman is supposed to be a chef - only men.

  Sandra Lee

  Men, Chef, Knows

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• Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

  Simon Le Bon

  Language Barriers, Generations, Music Is

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• Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

  James Mangold

  Art, Reality, Representation

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• Before the start of the 2000 season, 'C.S.I.' wasn't supposed to be the hit. We all thought it would be 'The Fugitive.

  Leslie Moonves

  Would Be, Fugitive, Seasons

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• If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

  Dannel Malloy

  Party, People, Different

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• I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Thinking, Comforting, Human Nature

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• You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.

  Eva Brann

  Mean, Bored, Unity

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  If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Thinking, Decision, Democracy

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is an American Hero". Jeffrey Rosen, September 28, 2014.

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• Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

  Alan Garner

  Hangover, School, Chuck E Cheese

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• The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren’t paying attention.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Long, Attention, Tipping

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