#expectation

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. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

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In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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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. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses. ↗

— Robert Luskin

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The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. ↗

— Marya Mannes

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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself. ↗

— Theresa May

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More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern. ↗

— James McGreevey

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