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• You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

  Budd Schulberg

  Tough, Conformity, Conform

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• I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.

  Courtney Love

  Males, Would Be, Kind

  "Courtney Love: 'my daughter is the most important thing in my life'". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 13, 2010.

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• Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

  Charles Dickens

  Fashion, Clothes, Expectations

  1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.19.

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• By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

  Jobs, School, Creating

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• Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

  John Tukey

  Focus, Statistics, Unexpected

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• Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

  Dora Russell

  Spring, Hymns, People

  Dora Russell (1975). “The Tamarisk Tree: My quest for liberty and love”

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• In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

  Bobby Thomson

  Running, New York, Home

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• Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was

  John Motson

  Soccer, Half, Might

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• I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see where you can go and where you're not expected.

  Bob Wise

  Believe, Looks, Terrorism

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• What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Attitude, Learning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.82, Beacon Press

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• I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

  Howard Hodgkin

  People, Wish

  Interview with Antony Peattie, howard-hodgkin.com. October 19, 1993.

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• One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspiration, Growth, World

  "Memory and Dream". Book by Charles de Lint, 1994.

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• Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Dream, Hope, Inspiration

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

  Christopher Atkins

  Knows, Movie Business

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

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• A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

  Margaret Deland

  Inspirational, Ability, Pints

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• Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

  Kenzo Tange

  Long, Design, Arbitrary

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• I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

  Maurice Gibb

  Stars, Smart, Thinking

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

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• Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

  Loretta Lynn

  Marriage, Real, Kids

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• When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Political, Would Be

  Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

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• I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Civilization, Destroying, Aircraft

  "Of Flight and Life". Book by Charles Lindbergh, 1948.

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• One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

  Elmer Davis

  America, Done, Fields

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• I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

  Kim Cattrall

  Mom, Play, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

  Errol Flynn

  Playboy, Decent, Chaps

  Quoted in Gary Herman The Book of Hollywood Quotes (1979).

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• Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

  Emily Carr

  Bored, Twenties, Eternal Love

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.199, D & M Publishers

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• One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sarcastic, Children, Funny Life

  Erma Bombeck (1997). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.153, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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