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• The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are an internally generated movement in Yemen and the Saudis were supposed to be dealing with the Houthis, who started out in essence along their border. So one of the things that we’re seeing is a complete failure of Saudi policy toward Yemen over the past 10 years, but the Saudis totally believe that the reason the Houthis are able to succeed militarily is the amount of money, advice, and guns they are receiving from Iran.

  Elliott Abrams

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

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• But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.

  Donovan McNabb

  Team, Focus, Needs

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• If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

  Joss Stone

  Giving, Too Much, Kind

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• Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

  Brené Brown

  Letting Go, Thinking, Midlife

  Brené Brown (2011). “불완전함의 선물”, Cheongha/ Tsai Fong Books

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• Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.

  Joan Ryan

  Teacher, Children, Motherhood

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• For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Mark, Question Mark

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• I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?

  Omari Hardwick

  Smart, College, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Omari Hardwick Raw (Career Evolution, Transition, Testimony Of Faith In Hollywood, ‘Kick-Ass 2,’ More)". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. August 27, 2012.

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• Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Meek, Novel, Downtrodden

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.1, St. Martin's Press

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• The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

  James Hansen

  Talking, Vote, Process

  "Leading climate scientist: 'democratic process isn't working'" by David Adam, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2009.

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• Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old - obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Years, Watches, Fiction

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• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  Yul Vazquez

  Wish, Want, Able

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• If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.

  Jonathan Cainer

  Happiness, Earth, Picnics

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• I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

  Stephen Daldry

  Ideas, Stories, Film

  "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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• I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

  Rip Taylor

  Tonight, Broke, Shoulders

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• Know that wherever you are in your life right now is both temporary, and exactly where you are supposed to be (otherwise you would be somewhere else). Be at peace with where you are while taking your next step toward where you want to be.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Next Steps

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• She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Numbness, Mouths, Dolls

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• I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Issues, Biden

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I'm still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It's a process, really. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.

  Ben Stiller

  Mom, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You go through different stages when you're working on the music in film. At least, I do. You have a temp score, so you have music from other people, usually from other movies, to give you a sense of what the mood is supposed to be, what the atmosphere is.

  Duncan Jones

  People, Giving, Atmosphere

  Source: collider.com

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• In music, you collaborate with people. It's supposed to be a mutually beneficial thing.

  Kid Cudi

  People, Beneficial

  "All The Right Moves". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. June, 2015.

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• Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.

  James Dickey

  Life, Running, Long

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• The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.

  William Saroyan

  Song, Good Luck, Simple

  "Here Comes There Goes You Know Who". Book by William Saroyan, 1961.

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• These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.

  Roy Keane

  Football, Stars, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Thinking, Art Is

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