#supposed

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#alert #american #attack #been #blessing

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#believe #bit #could #i #just

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything. ↗

— Charlie Watts

#anything #enamoured #i #like #me

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#impossible #just #littered #problems #solved

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons. ↗

— Bern Williams

#canyons #grand #keep #life #peaks

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether. ↗

— Lev Yilmaz

#animation #became #everybody #happen #invented

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#i do #like #me #people #supposedly

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#hate #i #i think #into #like

Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition. ↗

— Bill Laswell

#criticized #davis #delved #embraced #fully

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#art #believe #death #get #i