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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
Barbara Kingsolver
People
Books
Tell
Invite
Expectations
Any
Want
Them
Bring
I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
Barry Bonds
You
People
Father
Pressure
Big
Think
Other
Some
Something
Like
Sport
Expect
Expectations
Your
Baseball
Play
Played
You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
Bear Grylls
Life
You
Live
Recipe
Else
Someone
Disaster
Expectations
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
Beck
Starving
Hoping
Something
Winning
Never
Had
Praying
Expectations
Any
Grammy
Set
I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.
Behati Prinsloo
Day
You
Live
Way
Bad
See
Bad Way
Learned
Expectations
Happens
Plan
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
Ben Stiller
Good
Me
People
Will
Dramas
Would
Find
More
Allow
Like
Politely
Comic
Role
Expectations
Upset
Actor
The idea that the president doesn't interfere in law-enforcement investigative matters is one of our deep normative expectations of the modern presidency. But it is not a matter of law. Legally, if the president of the United States wants to direct the specific conduct of investigations, that is his constitutional prerogative.
Benjamin Wittes
Law
Matter
Matters
Presidency
President
Our
States
Constitutional
Direct
Investigations
Investigative
Idea
His
Conduct
Expectations
Legally
Modern
Wants
Interfere
Deep
United
Prerogative
Specific
United States
Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me.
Benoit Mandelbrot
Depression
War
Me
Achievement
Parents
Ambition
High
High Expectations
Both
Individual
Never
Because
Were
Expectations
Achieved
Wanted
Transferred
Deserved
I'll tell you, in making film, especially when you're an actress, you're always worried about how you look on film, how they light you, always working with your camera people to be at your best, with the expectations of our culture that you always look perfect and beautiful and whatever.
Betty Buckley
Beautiful
Best
You
Culture
People
Light
Whatever
Our
Worried
Tell
About
Perfect
Look
Always
How
Making
Camera
Expectations
Working
Your
Film
Actress
When it comes to batting, I have a lot of expectations from myself.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Myself
Batting
Lot
Expectations
I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.
Bill Kreutzmann
Good
Encouragement
Be Different
Something
Rather
Small
Something New
New
Because
Expectations
Just
Different
Bar
Show
Fun
Play
Here
It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
Bill Paxton
Good
You
Pleasantly
See
Disappointed
Always
Surprised
Expectations
Then
Film
If you're pretty, you want to be ugly. If you're loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people's expectations.
Billy Eichner
You
People
Ugly
Challenge
Pretty
Always
Loud
Quiet
Expectations
Want
Play
I want to put expectations on our team that are high. That's kind of the way I've always been, and I want to put those expectations on our team as well.
Blake Griffin
Our
Way
Those
Kind
High
Put
Well
Always
Been
Expectations
Want
Team
I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I've been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.
Bob Iger
Myself
Judge
Others
Those
Jobs
Given
Never
Over
Been
Years
According
Expectations
Which
Succeeded
Extent
We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.
Boris Yeltsin
Time
Great
Year
Security
Rise
Given
Throughout
Powerful
Disappointments
Particularly
Equal
Years
Existed
Expectations
Same
Stability
Same Time
Interest
Europe
I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.
Brad Grey
Life
Work
You
Try
Way
Right Way
Say
Out
Only
Greatest
Always
Expectations
Work Out
Right
Things
There's always a bit of nerves that come with expectations and new situations.
Brendon Urie
Bit
Nerves
New
Come
Always
Expectations
Situations
I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.
Brett Young
Day
People
Valentines Day
Year
Live
Think
Valentine
Those
High
High Expectations
Develop
Disappointing
New
Like
Up
Expectations
Decent
Where
Holidays
Even
Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'
Brian Fallon
Christmas
Great
Before
Everyone
See
London
Calling
Read
Hear
Expectations
Should
Nightmare
I think if you don't give people the tools and the expectations for success, and yet hold them to some value, then you're difficult to work with.
Brian Krzanich
Success
Work
You
People
Value
Difficult
Think
Tools
Some
Give
Expectations
Hold
Them
Then
Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
Bruce Oldfield
You
Better
Others
More
Limited
Always
Expectations
When you go into to vacationing with kids, what people don't get is that there is a portion of it that's going to be unpleasant because you're traveling with children. When people have these expectations that it's going to be perfect or amazing, that has never been my experience.
Busy Philipps
You
Experience
People
Amazing
Kids
Unpleasant
Perfect
Never
Because
Go
Been
Expectations
Get
Going
Children
Traveling
Portion
I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain expectations about what would be a reasonable and desirable position to be assigned to after my years of service.
Buzz Aldrin
Service
Air Force
First
Back
Air
Astronaut
Would
Would-Be
About
Had
Force
Return
Been
Years
Person
Expectations
After
Certain
Reasonable
Who
Navy
Assigned
Desirable
Marine
Position
I think both the space shuttle program and the International Space Station program have not really lived up to their expectations.
Buzz Aldrin
Space
Think
Station
Both
Up
Expectations
Space Shuttle
Space Station
Really
International
International Space Station
Lived
Shuttle
Program
Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
Caitlyn Jenner
People
Some People
Gender
Society
Way
Some
Look
Because
Expectations
Want
Conform
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