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My mother sent me and my sisters to Italy every year for language school, so I spent a lot of my teenage years in Florence and Rome. After university I went to Harvard for a year, dropped out, and then went to Paris, where I ended up staying 10 years. It's different from being American: If you're British, you're expected to live at the far corners. Lawrence Osborne

Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country.

Ronaldinho

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

Gabrielle Union

I don't believe we are, because I believe that just as 9/11 was an attack on a very populous area, terrorism also looks to see where you can go and where you're not expected.

Bob Wise

What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.

Charles Francis Richter

I was the youngest child and the only son. I was expected to shine in academics. It seemed like too big a risk to take up cricket as a career. I thought I had to live up to my family's expectations. So I chose to be an engineer.

Sushant Singh Rajput

When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.

Shuji Nakamura

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.

Chelsea Clinton

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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 Seconds,' not what would be expected.

Nicolas Cage

I was pretty successful before Sept. 11 and fully expected that when I left being mayor I would be very successful.

Rudy Giuliani

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

John McKinley

It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.

Mena Suvari

When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

Halsey

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

Wynton Marsalis

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.

Steve Ballmer

Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower.

Nick Bostrom

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

Howard Gardner

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

Sanjay Dutt

I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. 'How are those new cars?' I asked. 'They're fine,' he said. I thought he'd offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn't. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn't buy the car.

Stanley Marcus

For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.

Debi Gliori

There is something very freeing about being anonymous because nothing is expected of you; nothing is getting back to anyone, and no one cares.

Dolly Wells

In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.

Nadia Comaneci

Our system provides for a winner to take office on January 20th, and he is expected to take command of the ship of state. Failure to do so, characterized by hesitation and indecision, will harm the national interest.

Richard V. Allen

We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.

Orville Wright

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

John Philip Sousa

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

Seamus Heaney

My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in your life; today you experience four or five different kinds of fiction every day. So staying ahead of the audience is impossible.

Steven Moffat

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

John Pople

The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.

Jack Youngblood

In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young men who can't afford to get married, because marriage has become a very expensive proposition. They are expected to bear the burden of costs in married life, but they can't find jobs.

Shereen El Feki

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous. If you expect your children to be honorable, you must be honorable.

James E. Faust

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

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

Michael Palin

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Samuel E. Morison

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

Mariska Hargitay

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Jessica Valenti