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Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

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

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

I'm excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn't have high expectations, I wouldn't come back here.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Where is the expectation of privacy in the commission of a crime?

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

High expectations are the key to everything.

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.