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They just expected it to you know... Paul, Steve and I could have hired our own publicist, if we wanted to, but I kind of liked the way it was more of a cult thing and those that liked it, liked it, you know what I mean?

~Amy Sedaris

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My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

~Amy Tan

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I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

~Amy Tan

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My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.

~Ana Ivanovic

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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

~Anand Giridharadas

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Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how Francis suggests that not only God but also secular politics must outrank economic imperatives.

~Anand Giridharadas

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My own ambitions were eclectic. My father ran a steel plant, and I was expected to study metallurgy and end up at the steel plant when I finished high school at age 15. Despite my proficiency at science, I decided against it and instead went on to study filmmaking.

~Anand Mahindra

Topics: Against Age Ambition Decided Despite Eclectic End Expected Father Filmmaking Finished High High School Instead My Own Own Plant Proficiency Ran School Science Steel Study Up Were

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

~Anatole Broyard

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All they expected me to do was rip and read the wire 'leads,' without doing any original reporting. It was pretty basic, but gave me a taste of how to combine my love of politics and broadcasting.

~Andrea Mitchell

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The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became.

~Andrew Bird

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