Supposed To Be Quotes - Page 8

• This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

  Anne Lamott

  Thinking, People, World

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• You are not behind. You are not lagging. You are not supposed to be somewhere else. You are exactly where you should be. Embrace now and go from there. Don't think that you have to catch up to something.

  Mark Sutton

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Behind You

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• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  Zedd

  Song, Sound, Want

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• The Internet was supposed to be the great equalizer.

  Gina Bianchini

  Internet, Equalizer

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• Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried

  Terry Fox

  Giving Up, Cancer, Years

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• The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

  Azealia Banks

  Awards, Azaleas, Excellence

  "Azealia Banks And Iggy Azalea Are Going At It Again" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2014.

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• Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Increase, Spending, Earmarks

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• To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

  Deborah Kass

  Artist, Cowboy, Generations

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• What are you two doing flirting with this nerd? I told you, you are supposed to be in charge of the 50 dancing girls I had set up for Miz's celebration.

  Alex Riley

  Girl, Flirting, Wwe

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• They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

  Eric Metaxas

  Answers, Theological, Concerned

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• I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

  Steve Albini

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "The Verge Q+A: Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail". Interview with Aaron Lake Smith, www.gq.com. September 29, 2010.

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• Whenever an opportunity comes your way, challenge yourself to first thank God and then quickly follow up with the question, “God, who else is supposed to be blessed by this connection or opportunity?

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Blessed, Opportunity, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Apr 12, 2015

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• Gasoline prices are soaring through the stratosphere, and the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to be standing up for the consumer, ought to stop playing footsie with the oil companies and take steps to protect the American people.

  Ron Wyden

  Gasoline Prices, Oil, People

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• I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

  Moshe Dayan

  Knowledge, Experts, Fields

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• There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.

  Helen Fielding

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

  Art Buchwald

  War, Fighting, Men

  Art Buchwald (1993). “Leaving home: a memoir”, Putnam Pub Group

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• Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.

  Neil Postman

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

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• I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

  Lee Iacocca

  Guy, Identity

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• The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

  Marvin Olasky

  Land, Serious, Holy

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• We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization.

  Anthony Burgess

  Children, Son, Civilization

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• In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?

  Millicent Fenwick

  Moving, Men, Thinking

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• The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Men, Attention, Untrustworthy

  Barbara Tuchman (2017). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.64, Penguin UK

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• I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.

  Mel Torme

  Song, Eight, Here I Am

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• Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

  Aziz Ansari

  Rapper, Guy, Comedian

  "Aziz Ansari's Latest Is 'Dangerously Delicious'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wlrn.org. April 2, 2012.

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• I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

  John Malkovich

  Actors, Theater

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