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• I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.

  Richard D. Zanuck

  Thinking, Comforting, Human Nature

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• You will be educated, which means that you will be interested where others are bored, that you will notice unities where others experience randomness, and that you will intend meanings where others are just spouting words. For exactly that is supposed to be the result of becoming literate: The world becomes a thick texture of significance that you know how to “access.

  Eva Brann

  Mean, Bored, Unity

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  If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Thinking, Decision, Democracy

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is an American Hero". Jeffrey Rosen, September 28, 2014.

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• Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

  Alan Garner

  Hangover, School, Chuck E Cheese

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• But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team.

  Donovan McNabb

  Team, Focus, Needs

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• If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

  Joss Stone

  Giving, Too Much, Kind

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• Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.

  Joan Ryan

  Teacher, Children, Motherhood

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• For me, art is supposed to be a question mark.

  Marilyn Manson

  Art, Mark, Question Mark

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• I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

  Rip Taylor

  Tonight, Broke, Shoulders

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• Know that wherever you are in your life right now is both temporary, and exactly where you are supposed to be (otherwise you would be somewhere else). Be at peace with where you are while taking your next step toward where you want to be.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Next Steps

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• I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Issues, Biden

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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• I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I'm still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It's a process, really. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.

  Ben Stiller

  Mom, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dog, Horse, Cat

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.

  James Dickey

  Life, Running, Long

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• These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft. Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.

  Roy Keane

  Football, Stars, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Thinking, Art Is

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• The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.

  Arnold Palmer

  Lying, Home, Golf

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• Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy.

  Robbie Robertson

  Fun, Today, Timeless

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• Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!

  Malcolm X

  Country, Army, Fighting

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• I found that competition was supposed to be a menace and that a good manager circumvented his competitors by getting a monopoly by artificial means.

  Henry Ford

  Mean, Competition, Good Man

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.

  Plutarch

  Son, Smell, Aprons

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.203

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• Is it not remarkable that the common repute which we all give to attorneys in the general is exactly opposite to that which every man gives to his own attorney in particular? Whom does anybody trust so implicitly as he trusts his own attorney? And yet is it not the case that the body of attorneys is supposed to be the most roguish body in existence?

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Opposites, Giving

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Miss Mackenzie: Trollope's Works”, p.184, 谷月社

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• Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mother, Women, Media

  "Jamie Lee Curtis Comes Clean". Good Housekeeping Interview, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 3, 2010.

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• Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.

  James McCosh

  Jesus, Distance, Book

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.307

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• Unlike conventional jocks, who tend to sell aluminum siding and give canned speeches to parochial-school athletic banquets in the off-season, race drivers never shuck their image when they leave the stadium. They are supposed to be zany, nomadic soldiers of fortune who are involved in wild endeavors during every waking moment.

  Brock Yates

  School, Race, Giving

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