#supposed

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#always #brother #donkey #father #favor

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#alcoholism #business #disease #egotism #executives

Hitler had this deal where he was supposed to make it rough on them so they would all get out and migrate to Israel because they needed people there to fight the Arabs. ↗

— Hutton Gibson

#because #deal #fight #get #had

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #i #lonely #most #negative

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#afford #africa #almost #back #college

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#balance #check #cozy #democracy #essential

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it. ↗

— Andy Griffith

#come #enough #eyes #feel #hard

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#artists #deeply #engaging #entire #everything

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards. ↗

— Katherine Harris

#after #al #al gore #allowed #any

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#dawn #dead #difficult #escape #film