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The only kind of music that I want to do is good music, because I don't like rules or doing what is expected of me.

Quote by Sebastian Bach about music, rules, good, good luck

We had expected that there would be more car bombs used in the attacks based on the very broad intelligence tips that we had.

Quote by John Abizaid about intelligence

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about actors, children

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about language, film, things

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

Quote by Peter Fonda

The first expectation was that I was supposed to put on weight. Then it was expected that we would lead proper lives, though there wasn't a lot of conversation about it.

Quote by Peter Fonda about expectation, conversation

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Quote by Samuel Johnson

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about opinion, waste, home, time, life

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about parents, home

A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, contentment

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed, for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about style, people

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about revelation, lie

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Quote by Mark Twain about people, rightness, time, man