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"So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to."
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"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
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"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations."
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"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
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"She never wants to get to the point where she looks forward to hearing from someone. Once you look forward to something, you're inevitably let down and nothing can stay the same so she'd rather expect nothing at all and just be surprised that she was thought of at all."
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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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"I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service - certainly many of you - than I have ever had, and you recognize that this is not unusual."
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"I can throw out any man alive."
Man
"You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field."
Thought
"Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of."
Comfort
"You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals."
Goal
"These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable."
Time
"I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living."
Living
"A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops."
Body
"So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to."
Expectation
"They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of."
Comfort
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