Supposed To Be Quotes - Page 9

• Some people made me out like the villain. I'm supposed to be the Bond villain, but actually I'm James Bond.

  Vincent Tan

  Football, People, League

  "Vincent Tan would consider return to blue if Cardiff City win promotion". www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2014.

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• We were all born to "be somebody," look deep inside your heart to find out who and what you are supposed to be.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Heart, Bodybuilding

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• Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

  James Cromwell

  Thinking, Keys, Self

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• Don’t put clothes on food. It’s supposed to be naked.

  Craig Benzine

  Clothes, Naked

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• The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.

  Sergey Brin

  Names, Google, Internet

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• Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but uncontrolled experiment with powerful hormones (HRT). That's quite a commentary on "scientific medicine".

  Ralph W. Moss

  Powerful, Pigs, Medicine

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• . . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Play, Black

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• All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on
  our own, just as with life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Would Be, Lessons, Valuable

  Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter, November 26, 1825.

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• I’m LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. I’m not even supposed to be here. That’s enough. Every night I walk into the locker room, I see a No. 6 with James on the back, I’m blessed. So what everybody says about me off the court, don’t matter. I ain’t got no worries.

  LeBron James

  Blessed, Night, Ohio

  "LeBron James Talks Akron, Being Blessed And His Lack Of Worries During Postgame Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2013.

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• My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

  Bruno Latour

  Sleep, People, Climate

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• Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

  Claud Cockburn

  Success, Dog, Fall

  Claud Cockburn (1981). “Cockburn Sums Up: An Autobiography”, Quartet Books (UK)

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• A woman’s beauty is supposed to be her grand project and constant insecurity. We’re meant to shellac our lips with five different glosses, but always think we’re fat. Beauty is Zeno’s paradox. We should endlessly strive for it, but it’s not socially acceptable to admit we’re there. We can’t perceive it in ourselves. It belongs to the guy screaming 'nice tits.

  Molly Crabapple

  Nice, Thinking, Guy

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• Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

  Earl Campbell

  Years, Hey, Done

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• You are not behind. You are not lagging. You are not supposed to be somewhere else. You are exactly where you should be. Embrace now and go from there. Don't think that you have to catch up to something.

  Mark Sutton

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Behind You

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• What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.

  Zedd

  Song, Sound, Want

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• Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Increase, Spending, Earmarks

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• To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

  Deborah Kass

  Artist, Cowboy, Generations

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• They (theological liberals)seemed to know what the answer was supposed to be and weren't much concerned with how to get there. They knew only that whatever answers the Fundamentalists came up with must be wrong.

  Eric Metaxas

  Answers, Theological, Concerned

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• I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

  Steve Albini

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "The Verge Q+A: Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail". Interview with Aaron Lake Smith, www.gq.com. September 29, 2010.

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• I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

  Moshe Dayan

  Knowledge, Experts, Fields

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• There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.

  Helen Fielding

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.

  Neil Postman

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

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• I'd really love to meet the guy I'm supposed to be. I'd hire him in a second.

  Lee Iacocca

  Guy, Identity

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• Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

  Aziz Ansari

  Rapper, Guy, Comedian

  "Aziz Ansari's Latest Is 'Dangerously Delicious'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wlrn.org. April 2, 2012.

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• I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

  John Malkovich

  Actors, Theater

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