Supposed To Be Quotes - Page 7

• He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.

  Miles Davis

  People, Jazz, Sometimes

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• But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

  Norton Juster

  Trying, Doing You, Enthusiasm

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• I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don’t worry about the likeness of the result to some notion - some paradigm - of what music composition is supposed to be.

  Mark Applebaum

  Creativity, Interesting, Worry

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• We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened. The climate is doing its usual tricks. There’s nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world now. The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time. The temperature has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Cutting, Should Have

  "Scientist cools on climate alarmism". www.theaustralian.com.au. April 26, 2012.

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• That business aspect of the media, that Charlotte Street world, the advertising and programme executives, it leaves me absolutely cold. I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen.

  Rory Bremner

  Media, Ideas, Directors

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• Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

  John Prine

  Writing, Leaving, Pieces

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• Maybe love isn’t supposed to be comfortable. Maybe love is just supposed to be worth it.

  Debby Ryan

  Love Is, Maybe Love, Comfortable

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• Gays being gay is wrong. Two women can't produce a baby, two men can't produce a baby, so it's not how it's supposed to be. ... I don't believe in gay marriages. I don't believe in being gay.

  Carl Everett

  Baby, Believe, Gay

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• It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

  Craig Charles

  Looks, Way, Easy

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• Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what makes them fun. Once we get older we’re not supposed to be messy anymore. But for one moment when you’re eating a Valomilk, it’s okay to be messy again.

  Steve Almond

  Fun, Dad, People

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.190, Algonquin Books

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• When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.

  Dane Rudhyar

  Holes, Universe

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• When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for what's happening right now. When I spend time with students, they tell me that they've read something in a book or heard something from a teacher that they don't think they're living up to. And I tell them, “Take care of yourself right now. Befriend what's happening, not just who you're supposed to be or what the world should be like. This is where you are now. So how do you care for yourself this minute?

  Bernie Glassman

  Teacher, Book, Caring

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• It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo.

  Paul Desmond

  Solo

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• We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

  Francis Spufford

  Needs, Sides, Goodness

  Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.141, Faber & Faber

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• Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Couple, Acceptance, Expectations

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

  Anne Tyler

  Class, America, Facts

  Penguin Random House interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

  Kristin Hersh

  Play, Records, Radio

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• What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

  Harold Bloom

  Essence, People, Eras

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• Don't tell anyone. I'm supposed to be dumb.

  Helena Christensen

  Dumb, Complaining, Complaints

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• Okay, so maybe I'm romantic... but somebody is supposed to be romantic. Some warrior is supposed to go to war against the imperial forces of cynicism and irony. I am a sentimental soldier.

  Sherman Alexie

  War, Soldier, Sentimental

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.304, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles. H.L. Mencken once said that the state doesn't just want to make you obey. It tries to make you want to obey. And that's one thing the government schools do very well.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Children, Growing Up, Real

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• Every day in practice I have to lead by example. But at the same time, when people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing, you're responsible as a player. You can't rely on the coaches to say everything. The players have to be responsible and take ownership of the team. Every day in practice there are situations where you need to say something and get a message across, but do it in the right way.

  Jeremy Lin

  Team, Player, Practice

  "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul.org Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org. March 12, 2010.

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• The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film

  Hideo Kojima

  Water, Body, Film

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

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• We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

  Ed Vargo

  Sports, Jobs, Perfect

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• At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

  Julia Cameron

  Beauty, Roots, Needs

  Julia Cameron (2005). “The Sound of Paper”, p.14, Penguin

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