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"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."
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"When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience."

"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."

"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."

"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."

"That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned."

"We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people."

"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations."

"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."

"The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it."

"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
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"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."

"I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution."

"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody."

"As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit."

"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."

"I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American."
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