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1453 quotes by 1199 authors

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could… — Neil Armstrong
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president,… — Russell Baker
Film-making was not at all what I had expected. — Brigitte Bardot
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. — Leonard Bernstein
It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected. — Larry Bird
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at… — Jim Bishop
I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they… — Nellie Bly
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are… — Erma Bombeck
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had… — Anthony Bourdain
I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so… — Jo Brand
The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it… — David R. Brower
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… — Anatole Broyard
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. — Leo Buscaglia
When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60… — Nicolas Cage
We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where I wasn't allowed to watch… — Nick Cannon
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. — Emily Carr
I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play… — Kim Cattrall
I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in and planted a pump in… — Dick Cheney
We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center… — Dick Cheney

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