Supposed To Be Quotes - Page 33

• Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Fashion, Jealous, People

  "The world according to Vivienne Westwood" By Dean Irvine, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2009.

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• The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Growth, Debt, Earth

  "The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Limitations are something that I latch onto - like working in genre, or if you're writing TV, there are act breaks, there's a length of time it's supposed to be. The restrictions of budget and sets can be really useful. When you can have everything, it's very hard to make things feel real and lived in.

  Joss Whedon

  Real, Writing, Tvs

  "Joss Whedon at SXSW: ‘You have to become your own network head.’" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

  Bernard Williams

  Secret, Valleys, Becoming

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• Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

  Juan Williams

  Fighting, Immigration, Reform

  "Gun Action Central to Obama's Presidency". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 18, 2013.

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• Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

  Ricky Williams

  Humans, Controlled, Human Beings

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• There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

  will.i.am

  Culture, Wow, Sometimes

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

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• It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  Sal Albanese

  Political, Abuse, Campaigns

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• The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Age, Stopping, Peers

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• Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.

  Elvis Presley

  Hater, Respect, Animal

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• I was supposed to be having the time of my life.

  Sylvia Plath

  Bell Jar, Time Of My Life

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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• Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.

  Meg Cabot

  Food, Exercise, Thinking

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Big Boned”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.

  Robert Browning

  Light, May, Way

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• Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

  Germaine Greer

  Reading, Sleep, Vices

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• If God is supposed to be merciful,' [Arthur] retorted, 'I don't see why He shouldn't allow people to stumble into heaven, just as well as climb there

  T. H. White

  People, Heaven, Arthur

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• I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other women who figure out where they are supposed to be by going nowhere.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sometimes, Wonder, My Sisters Keeper

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not even supposed to be here today.

  Kevin Smith

  Clerks, Today

  "Clerks". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Intelligent, Bird, Slaughterhouse Five

  Kurt Vonnegut (2002). “Slaughterhouse-Five”, Spark Notes

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• Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to.

  Mitch Albom

  Life And Love, Regret, Sacrifice

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2017

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• I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.

  Richard Bach

  Marriage, Hope, World

  "The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots of fellows have asked me who my tailor is.' Doubtless in order to avoid him, sir.' He's supposed to be one of the best men in London.' I am saying nothing against his moral character, sir.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Character, Men, Order

  P. G. Wodehouse (2004). “Introducing Jeeves: Six Classic Stories”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

  Sarah Dessen

  Family, Divorce, People

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.193, Penguin

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• And the joys I've felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently. When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It as too big for me an would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweler make that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. IF I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Giving, Joy, Grandfather

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• Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'. Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character?

  Sara Shepard

  Art, Teaching, Character

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• It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

  John Brunner

  Technology, Zanzibar, Buttons

  "Stand on Zanzibar". Book by John Brunner, 1968.

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