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• How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

  Matt Groening

  Trying, Bed, Breakfast

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• Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

  Joan Baez

  Depression, Thinking, Mind

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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• Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

  Joel Spolsky

  Programming, Behave, Ifs

  "Usability in One Easy Step (First Draft)". Article by Joel Spolsky, www.joelonsoftware.com. March 7, 2006.

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• The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.

  P. M. H. Atwater

  Light, People, Darkness

  P. M. H. Atwater (2004). “We Live Forever: The Real Truth about Death”, p.88, ARE Press

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• A man with a talent does what is expected of him, makes his way, constructs, is an engineer, a composer, a builder of bridges. It's the natural order of things that he construct objects outside himself and his family. The woman who does so is aberrant. We have to expiate for this cursed talent someone handed out to us, by mistake, in the black mystery of genetics.

  May Sarton

  Mistake, Men, Order

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.

  Harry Carpenter

  Boxing, Noses, Boxers

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• When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

  Albert Einstein

  Attention, Young, Wanted

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• For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment.

  Albert Einstein

  Disappointment, Home, Sea

  "Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives". Book by Albert Einstein, p. 72, 1979.

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• Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.

  Elaine Chao

  Pay, Citizenship, Program

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• So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair-ew!-and cover it up with a backwards cap and like, we're expected to swoon? I don't think so.

  Cher

  Clueless, Mean, Thinking

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• If you live your life only following the path you think is approved or acceptable, or the one you think is expected of you, you’ll be making a huge mistake. Not a single successful person… has ever done great things because they played it safe. You’ve got to be true to yourself.

  Carson Kressley

  Mistake, Successful, Thinking

  "PhilaU Celebrates the Class of 2013 at Commencement". Commencement speech at Philadelphia University, wordpress.philau.edu. May 11, 2013.

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• I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory.

  Cate Blanchett

  People, Choices, Territory

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• I have always... expected a lot from myself.

  Scarlett Johansson

  "Scarlett fever" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Stars, Enjoy, Wanted

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• When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Stars, Littles, Eccentric

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• I never said I wasn’t Black… I want to make that very clear. I said, I am not African-American. I never expected my personal beliefs and comments to spark such emotion in people. I think it is only positive when we can openly discuss race and being labeled in America.

  Raven-Symone

  Thinking, Race, America

  "Raven-Symone responds to Oprah interview Backlash: 'I never said I wasn't black' by Emily Lindner, www.mtv.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I was scared every time I put on a uniform and stepped on the field. I’m scared every day I go into the studio and I come on stage because I fear that I will not live up to what is expected. I fear that somebody who spent a lot of money to come into our studio, to come to New York and they’ll walk away and go, ‘I could have stayed at home.’ I feared that as a player a fan would come to the stands and I wouldn’t perform well. Just the way I’m built. I’m more scared of failure than I am excited about the accolades that come with success.

  Michael Strahan

  New York, Home, Player

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• I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I`ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

  Buster Keaton

  Sorry, Hard Work, Mean

  Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Now apparently I'm told that every celebrity is expected to honour the details of their private life with a press conference, a fragrance and a prime-time reality show.

  Jodie Foster

  Reality, Honor, Details

  "Jodie Foster's Golden Globes acceptance speech: Did she come out? Depends on whom you ask". nationalpost.com. January 14, 2013.

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• I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this

  Victoria Principal

  Trying, Lost, Consumed

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• On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Apes, Said, Damn

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• I didn't take the decision [to get married] lightly. I ventured into it realistically. But life takes you places you wouldn't have expected. I'm really content with what was in the cards for me.

  Mandy Moore

  Decision, Cards, Married

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• Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans.

  Carl Sagan

  Summer, Spring, War

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• Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

  B. J. Novak

  Perfect, Type, Replicate

  B.J. Novak (2014). “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories”, p.68, Vintage

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• Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Nice, Thinking

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