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"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled."
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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."

"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away."

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

"Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over."

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

"When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable."

"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."
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"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."

"The whole thing was done for internal political reasons to galvanize and unify the country against the Americans, and if they hadn't had that immediate opportunity they would have found another one."

"And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts."

"I learned running the government for the Presidency, which I always thought was difficult, is even more difficult than I thought."

"I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled."
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