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I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

~Emma Watson

Topics: About Certain Certain Way Expectation Look Way Worry

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There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

~Emmylou Harris

Topics: Accepting Been Certain Come Embracing Expectation Expected Good Good Things Grace Life Necessarily Still Things You Your

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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

~Eric Hoffer

Topics: Bankruptcy Disappointment Expectation Hope Much Sort Soul Too Too Much

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With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing a character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icons, and it's no mean feat. It's quite an insular experience even though the crowd is in front of you and there's an expectation.

~Erin O'Connor

Topics: Character Crowd Dead Even Expectation Experience Famous Famous People Fantasy Fashion Feat Front High Historical Icons Interpret Mean Men People Performance Physical Played Playing Quite Really Though Trying Very Way You

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I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I don't allow anybody's expectation to weigh on me. I have my own expectation of life. I believe in letting people be free.

~Ester Dean

Topics: Allow Anybody Believe Expectation Free Heart Just Know Letting Life Like Make Me My Own Never Own People Songs Sure Try Weigh Write You I Believe I Believe In

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There's a cultural expectation that everyone will be immunized, in part to protect the entire population. When people refuse that expectation, they're indulging in a certain kind of political or social immunity.

~Eula Biss

Topics: Certain Cultural Entire Everyone Expectation Immunity Kind Part People Political Population Protect Refuse Social Will

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If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

~Evan Osnos

Topics: Expectation Going Likelihood Minimal Pays Politics Punishment Remorse Where

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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

~Faye Wattleton

Topics: Big Built Expectation Had Her Like Lot Me Missionary Mother Nurse Order Religious Taught Things

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Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.

~Federica Mogherini

Topics: Citizens Does Expectation Federation Full Human Human Rights Our Own Part Principles Protect Respect Rights Russian

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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

~Frances Burney

Topics: Ambition Contentment Curb Diminish Enjoyment Expectation First First Step Free Increase Mind Seldom Since Step Totally Youthful

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