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The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

Jill Scott

Art, Growing Up, Grandmother

"Jill Scott: 'I was told I'd never have kids - my son is due in 5 weeks". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2009.

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I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

Wallace Shawn

People, Laughing, Jokes

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

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My persona has always been what a man was never supposed to be. Outrageous, gregarious, crazy, silly, funny.

Richard Simmons

Crazy, Silly, Men

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This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.

Nina Simone

Dream, Kissing, Years

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America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

Goldwin Smith

Ugly Things, America, Pretentious

Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

Hope Solo

Team, Athlete, Female

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Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

Nicholas Sparks

Valentines Day, Missing Someone, Thinking

Twitter post from Mar 07, 2017

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We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

Ben Stein

Rights, Law, Done

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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

Gertrude Stein

Funny, Strong, Men

Gertrude Stein (1945). “Wars I Have Seen”, New York : Random House

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If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?

Gloria Steinem

Men, Emotional, Long

Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.555, Open Road Media

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Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.

John Stossel

America, Safety, Giving

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Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

James Surowiecki

Risk, Defense, Rewards

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If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.

Wanda Sykes

Inspirational, Passion, Wish

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The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

Matt Taibbi

Giving, Greed, Culture

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Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

Sachin Tendulkar

Sports, Team, Games

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My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

Justin Timberlake

Teenage, Years, Path

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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

Garry Trudeau

Years, Able, Comic

"Trudeau Reflects On Four Decades Of 'Doonesbury'". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 26, 2010.

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Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.

Carrie Underwood

Revenge, Mean, Guy

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My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

Johnny Vegas

Home, Holiday, Vacation

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In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.

Sofia Vergara

Latin, Believe, America

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Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.

Ayelet Waldman

Happiness, Children, Valentine

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Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

M. Emmet Walsh

Sunset, Men, Years

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During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Andy Warhol

Thinking, Commercial Art, People

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You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.

Lil Wayne

Kings, World, Able

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Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

Paul Weller

Mean, Years, Important

"Paul Weller: 'You've got to be willing to upset people'". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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