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• I read that I’m supposed to be Hollywood’s new sex symbol . I think I’m the most unsexy thing that ever was. I’m open for everything of course, but I’m certainly not aware of being sexy.

  Sharon Tate

  Sexy, Thinking, Hollywood

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• Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.

  Rick Santorum

  Christian, Said, Okay

  "9 controversial Rick Santorum quotes". theweek.com. January 5, 2012.

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• We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Does cultural development represent a real advance in human sensitivity, or is it chiefly a diversion for elites and a weapon of class exploitation?

  John Blacking

  Music, Real, Class

  John Blacking (1974). “How Musical is Man?”, p.4, University of Washington Press

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• And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive

  Damon Albarn

  Stars, Mean, Voice

  "Gorillaz in tha Midst". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. June 29, 2001.

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• There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in an emotionally satisfying faith is repugnant to me. I believe that we are ultimately directed Godward but that this journey is often impeded by emotion

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, Journey, Emotion

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.100, Macmillan

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• Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Safe, Way

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• I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Blessed, People, Would Be

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• I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.

  Gregg Allman

  Married, Conclusion, Being Married

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• What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base their motivation instead on the strongly rooted cultural stereotype of what work is supposed to be like. They think of it as an imposition, a constraint, an infringement of their freedom, and therefore something to be avoided as much as possible.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Motivation, Mean, Thinking

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

  Jef Raskin

  Computer, Classroom, Servant

  "The Macintosh at 20: Interview with Jef Raskin". Interview with Berkeley Groks, grokscience.wordpress.com. March 3, 2004.

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• The greatest act of judgment that God can pour out on a people is being poured out on America, and it is this: He's taken away the knowledge of God, and He's closed the mouth of those who are supposed to be speaking for Him. So that little boys lead us with their silly little ideas and we like it that way, because we really do want our best life now.

  Paul Washer

  Silly, Taken, Boys

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• I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk. ... My dear brothers, WE ARE ALREADY ONE. BUT WE IMAGINE THAT WE ARE NOT. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are

  Thomas Merton

  Brother, Unity, Imagine

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• Punk became a circus didn't it? Everybody got it wrong. The message was supposed to be: Don't follow us, do what you want!

  John Lydon

  Want, Circus, Messages

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• Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'

  Wayne Shorter

  Mean, Sound, Jazz

  "Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?'". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sullivan, www.npr.org. February 2, 2013.

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• Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

  George Soros

  Objectivity, Investing, Matter

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Growing Up, Real

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• Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

  Rachel Maddow

  Rights

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• Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

  Brené Brown

  Letting Go, Thinking, Practice

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is supposed to be fun! When you're having fun, you feel great and you receive great things! Having fun brings the life you want, and taking things too seriously brings a life you have to take seriously.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Positive, Fun

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Nowadays, 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

  Emma Donoghue

  Invisibility, Way, Saws

  Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”

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• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  Wale

  Reality, Thinking, Term

  "Wale isn't really against The Man". Interview with Matthew Borlik and Jen Girdish, music.avclub.com. Deccember 29, 2009.

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• I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.

  Paul Wellstone

  Talking, Agriculture, People

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• I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

  Kate Millett

  Gone, International

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• Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

  Kate Millett

  Believe, Illness, Proof

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• Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Morning, Night

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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