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Expectation Quotes
"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."
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"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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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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"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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"We tend to live up to our expectations."
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"I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair."
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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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"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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"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
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"There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years."
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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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"High expectations are the key to everything."
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"The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be."
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"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
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"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."
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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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"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."
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"I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me."
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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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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
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"We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God."
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"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."
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"Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records."
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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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"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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"I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated."
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"They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up."
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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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"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
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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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"Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope."
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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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"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away."
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"Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones."
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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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"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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"With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it."
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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 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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"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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"In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation."
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"When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable."
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"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
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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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"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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"This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations."
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