#expectation

People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations. ↗

— Rodney King

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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations. ↗

— Nate Ruess

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I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#authenticity #bar #days #expectations #higher

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied. ↗

— Dan Savage

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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. ↗

— Dan Savage

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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous. ↗

— Dan Savage

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Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win. ↗

— William Shatner

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I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#boundaries #bounds #expectations #i #i love

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations. ↗

— Martin Short

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I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

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