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• Mom spent the time that she was supposed to be a kid actully raising children, her younger brother and younger sister. She was tough as nails and did not suffer fools at all. And the truth was she could not afford to. She spoke the truth, bluntly, directly, and without much varnish. I am her son.

  Chris Christie

  Mom, Brother, Children

  Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

  Amy Chua

  Hate, Play, Tennis

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• To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, Firsts, Oppression

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• I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family - it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner; everyone knows everyone and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to sit.

  John Cleese

  Christmas, Scary, Joining

  "Die Another Day - Cleese talks Q / writers discuss plot" by Jack Foley, indielondon.co.uk. 2003.

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• The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say "Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering" - come on. For us, even in the rotten ones, we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

  George Clooney

  Character, Mean, Thinking

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

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• I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

  Kurt Cobain

  Mean, Beer, Ideas

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• I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Communication, Chocolate

  Interview with Elizabeth Peyton, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

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• My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.

  Joan Collins

  Mother, Sweet, Perfect

  "Joan Collins: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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• We’ve got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

  Bill Cosby

  Gun, Hands, People

  "SIMMONS: Bill Cosby weighs in on Trayvon Martin case". Interview with Deborah Simmons, www.washingtontimes.com. April 7, 2012.

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• Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's "supposed" to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

  Mark Cuban

  Motivation, Business, Somewhere Else

  "Mark Cuban: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2008.

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• Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

  David Duchovny

  Ideas, Sound, Needs

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• My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

  Lena Dunham

  Artist, Parent, Tunes

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

  Bob Dylan

  Memories, Future, Yesterday

  Song: Don't Fall Apart On Me Tonight, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

  Terry Eagleton

  Evil, Reason, Rhyme

  Terry Eagleton (2010). “On Evil”, p.3, Yale University Press

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• If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

  Julian Fellowes

  Personality, Might, Wells

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• When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

  Jane Fonda

  Stars, Age, Glamorous

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• I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

  Jane Fonda

  Perfect, Childhood, Trying

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• When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

  Jamie Foxx

  Growing Up, Destiny, Thinking

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

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• There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery’s version of the Barack Obama “Hope” poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama’s Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists’ Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

  Thomas Frank

  Depressing, Portraits, Lobbyists

  "Obama and the K Street Set" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2009.

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• Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Friendship, Husband, Inspiration

  Interview with Cathi Hanauer, www.elle.com. March 23, 2009.

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• When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

  Jane Goodall

  Girl, Dream, College

  "New mission for chimps' champion". Interview with Ros Coward, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2004.

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• When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

  Woody Harrelson

  Loss, Pages, Environment

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

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• The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Voice, Selfless, Want

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• I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.

  Ethan Hawke

  Sleep, Kids, House

  "Ethan Hawke talks Daybreakers!". www.geekscape.net. January 06, 2010.

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• The bowl games are only supposed to be a fun reward.

  Woody Hayes

  Fun, Games, Rewards

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