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Expectation Quotes
"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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"Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire."
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"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
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"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
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"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
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"High expectations are the key to everything."
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"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
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"I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes."
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"Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records."
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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."
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"Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them."
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"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
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"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
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"Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope."
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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 think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you."
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"When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable."
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"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
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"I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high."
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"I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations."
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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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"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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"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."
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"If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have."
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"People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."
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"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."
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"The undertone of miracle focused gospel is that people will want to get something from nothing."
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"The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it."
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"Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great."
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"I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old."
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"Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect."
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert."
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"It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised."
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"In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation."
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"I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion."
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"We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time."
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"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away."
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"I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations."
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"An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me."
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"I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations."
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"Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens."
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"The problem with many people is that they would plant a pear tree and expect it to bear some mango fruit."
"The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be."
"Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack."
"The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same."
"Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be."
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