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• Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.

  Paul Pierce

  Men, Kansas, Expectations

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• So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

  Yingluck Shinawatra

  Men, Thinking, Expectations

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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  Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Football, Expectations, Fans

  "Big Ten East standard bearer Ohio St. expects no drop-off". www.washingtontimes.com. April 16, 2015.

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• High expectations don't bother me at all.

  Miguel Cabrera

  Expectations, Bother

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• I keep my expectations low, so nobody disappoints me." "Yeah, well, I have high expectations." I look toward Miranda. "I guess my friends do, too." "Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier.

  Simone Elkeles

  People, Expectations, Looks

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• It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.

  Emma Watson

  Girl, Expectations, Feminist

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• With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what Id actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.

  Jared Diamond

  Depressing, People, Expectations

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• On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

  Ellis Hobbs

  Failure, Expectations, Zits

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• My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

  Amy Tan

  Expectations, Parent, Kindergarten

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Birthday, Children, Self Esteem

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• I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

  Vinny Testaverde

  Sports, Expectations, Feelings

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• Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.

  Murad Wilfried Hofmann

  Islamic, Expectations, Community

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• With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.

  John Dramani Mahama

  Thinking, People, Expectations

  "Ghana's New President Shaped By A Violent Past". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 25, 2012.

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• I have great confidence in Rene and high expectations for our squad to respond.

  Shahid Khan

  Football, Squad, League

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• Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

  Stephen Holden

  Heart, Piano, Expectations

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• The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

  Neil Strauss

  Men, Expectations, Inspire

  "All the right moves". Interview with Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Thinking, Zippers, People

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• Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

  Gaines Adams

  Expectations, Coaches, Stills

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• I'm not fun to bowl with. I take it way too seriously. I have high expectations for myself.

  Chris Hardwick

  Fun, Expectations, Way

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• As soon as that little "ba-da-da-dink-dink" at the beginning of "Under the Sea" starts I think to myself: "Here we go! Let's do it!" When I first got the role, I was very intimidated because people have high expectations. But I have nothing to prove only to share. I'll do my best interpretation of what these songs should sound like in their current incarnations and it's quite an honor.

  Tituss Burgess

  Song, Thinking, Sea

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having high expectations for me, coupled with love, was the greatest gift that anyone's ever given me. And so that's why, even though my husband is not Chinese, I try to raise my own two daughters the same way.

  Amy Chua

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  "A Memoir Of A 'Tiger Mother's' Quest For Perfection". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel and Michele Norris, www.npr.org. January 14, 2011.

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• You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You may want to prove that you're worthy of high expectations. But I do think that there is a youthful ambition that very much has to do with making your mark in the world. And I think that cuts across the experiences of a lot of people who end up achieving something significant in their field.

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Kids, Cutting

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the worst public schools in Baltimore, with kids most people would write off because of their backgrounds. But, when I set high expectations, at the end of the day, these kids went from scoring at the bottom on standardized tests, to scoring at the top, despite their unfortunate circumstances.

  Michelle Rhee

  Writing, School, Kids

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.

  James Franco

  Suicide, Running, School

  Source: i-d.vice.com

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• John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mother, Strong Women, Thinking

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