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There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever.
Husnu Ozyegin
Live
Born
Supposed
Forever
Die
Businesses
Many
University
'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
Ice Cube
Home
Song
Group
Too
Out
Only
Write
Had
He
Written
New
Like
Supposed
Looked
Wrote
Boy
Doing
Mix
Were
West
West Coast
Tapes
York
New York
Wanted
Them
Coast
Cool
Street
Actually
I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.
Isabel Allende
Family
Me
Happy
Everyone
Liberated
Way
Marry
Born
Supposed
Make
Around
Female
Person
Any
Patriarchal
It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren't into me, and tried too hard to fit into this 'blackness' I was supposed to be.
Issa Rae
Me
School
Black
White
Too
Chubby
Tried
Blackness
Supposed
Also
California
Boy
Were
Fit
Southern
Southern California
Middle
Middle School
Placed
Jarring
Acting
Hard
Who
I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.
J. August Richards
Best
Character
Example
Thrive
Say
Supposed
Always
Create
Much
Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.
JaVale McGee
Whatever
Supposed
However
Happen
Happens
Fast
I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.
Jack Garratt
Believe
Musical
Kind
Point
Supposed
Instrument
Instruments
Because
Been
Created
Designed
Played
Defeats
We're supposed to be role models for kids.
Jack Grealish
Kids
Supposed
Role
Role Models
Models
A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.
Jack Vance
Immersed
Someone
He
Written
Environment
Supposed
Reader
Submerged
Story
Aware
I think we so often equate leadership with being experts - the leader is supposed to come in and fix things. But in this interconnected world we live in now, it's almost impossible for just one person to do that.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Leadership
World
Impossible
Leader
Live
Think
Almost
Come
Supposed
Equate
Fix
Person
Often
Just
Being
Interconnected
Just One
Experts
Now
Things
I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.
Jake Roberts
You
Man
Stupid
Snake
Drawer
Claimed
Never
Knife
Sharpest
Supposed
Still
Serious
Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s.
Jam Master Jay
Great
You
Parents
More
Headphones
Supposed
Know
Got
Bedroom
Doing
Rocking
Going
Middle
Much
Asleep
Your
Fun
Night
Set
I've done a few face palms after things I've said because it's stupid. But if I'm not like that, I won't feel human anymore. I'll just feel like some robot saying what I'm supposed to say. I think that's when people lose it.
James Arthur
Saying
People
Face
Stupid
Robot
Lose
Few
Think
Say
Some
Feel
Like
Supposed
Because
Said
Done
Human
Just
Anymore
After
Things
I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter writing quite personal songs. You're not supposed to chuck me on a stage with bells and whistles. There was a struggle ahead after that happened, and perhaps I was trying to write songs to compete in that arena.
James Blunt
Me
You
Struggle
Writing
Stage
Think
Worldwide
Chuck
Arena
Write
Songs
Supposed
Perhaps
Singer-Songwriter
Trying
Personal
Quite
After
Happened
Star
Ever
Bells
Designed
Bells And Whistles
Compete
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
James Buchan
Depression
Character
Business
Greed
Recession
Moral
Moral Character
Purge
Economic
Excess
Had
Supposed
Until
Up
Expansion
Body
Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.
James Hansen
Through
Supposed
Because
Trade
Permits
Trading
Selling
Pollution
Cap
Enforced
Actually
Eliminate
I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.
James Patterson
Work
Book
About
Outline
Outlines
Scene
Write
Writers
Supposed
Accomplish
Very
Regularly
Each
Specific
Number
I remember one night, my parents were out at a function of some kind and I had just gotten cable in my room. That was a big deal, and I saw 'Blue Velvet' on HBO. It blew my mind in a way that I don't think children's minds are supposed to be blown, but they probably shouldn't be watching 'Blue Velvet.'
James Roday
Remember
Mind
Parents
Big
Think
Minds
Saw
Way
Out
Kind
One-Night
Some
Cable
Had
Velvet
Supposed
Blew
Deal
Gotten
Big Deal
Were
Blown
Blue
Just
Children
Room
Function
Watching
Night
Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
James Surowiecki
Risks
Reward
Reap
Defense
Tremendous
Those
Able
Rarely
Supposed
Contractors
Which
While
Confronting
Profits
When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.
Jamie Foxx
Me
Destination
Energy
Think
Destiny
Telling
Would
Inside
Minute
Born
Something
Knew
Like
Supposed
Felt
Go
Intangible
Texas
Up
Where
Different
Meant
Growing
Growing Up
I'm all about doing things myself because I find it hard to trust other people. Not trust, but I know exactly what I want to do, and I know exactly how it's supposed to look.
Jamie Hewlett
Myself
Trust
People
Other
Find
Exactly
Exactly What
About
Supposed
Know
Look
Because
How
Doing
Want
Hard
Things
I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
Jane Fonda
Life
Time
Good
Me
You
Try
Back
Complete
Please
Spent
Perfect
Over
Supposed
Deal
Understand
Doing
Review
Get
Trying
Disease
Going
Childhood
Who
Helped
Whole
Good Deal
Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.
Jane Fonda
Love
Eyes
Parents
Narcissism
Herself
Back
Give
Over
Supposed
Because
Got
Tape
Child
Happen
Agribusiness - with its wicked powerful lobby and its infiltration of top bureaucratic posts - essentially runs roughshod over the government agencies that are supposed to monitor it. It's the rich fox guarding the filthy, overcrowded henhouse.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
Government
Rich
Wicked
Guarding
Lobby
Filthy
Top
Runs
Posts
Powerful
Over
Supposed
Overcrowded
Government Agencies
Bureaucratic
Essentially
Agencies
Monitor
Fox
It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Nature
Woman
Will
Men
Somebody
Fall
Resources
Melancholy
Out
Must
Find
Able
Borne
Blackest
About
Seem
Supposed
She
Always
Odd
Exist
Anything
Themselves
Should
Shoulders
Notions
I feel like a part of my role being a musician and part of why I want to be a musician is to show women an alternative to sort of the cultural norms, the stereotypes of what we're supposed to be, demure and quiet and motherly.
Janet Weiss
Women
Musician
Part
Feel
Stereotypes
Like
Supposed
Sort
Alternative
Cultural
Norms
Quiet
Role
Being
Want
Show
Why
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