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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

~Danica Patrick

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Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

~Dave Eggers

Topics: Because Doing Every Expectation Get Grew Little Naive People Right Shocked Up Violation

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You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist.

~Dave Eggers

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How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of the most difficult challenges facing us all.

~David Blunkett

Topics: Balance Between Challenges Difficult Expectation Facilitate Facing Freedom How Most Our Privacy Protect Right State Strike Us Will

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The greater the pressure and expectation, the more I relish the opportunity.

~David Droga

Topics: Expectation Greater More Opportunity Pressure Relish

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The expectation with family foundations is that if your name is on the foundation, unless you're dead, it's your money that's being given away. And even if you are dead, it was your money before.

~David Fahrenthold

Topics: Away Before Being Dead Even Expectation Family Foundation Foundations Given Money Name Unless You Your

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The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

~David Gilmour

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I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.

~David Guterson

Topics: Aware Being Book Challenged Did Expectation Fail Falter First Increased Inevitably Live Never Next Pleases Prior Promise Sense Simply Stage Successful Up Way Writers

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The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

~David Knopfler

Topics: Anything Club Creative Expectation Figured Fit Folk Followed Just Logic Much Out Prone Punishments Same School

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The African Americans' story is one that seems to be a repeated commitment to a scenario for success and failure. With each failure, the blow is that much more traumatizing until finally one reaches a point where there is to some degree an internalization, skepticism, fatalism, and expectation that it isn't going to work.

~David Levering Lewis

Topics: African African Americans American Blow Commitment Degree Each Expectation Failure Fatalism Finally Going More Much Point Repeated Scenario Seems Skepticism Some Story Success Until Where Work

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