Quotes About Expectations

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

One cannot judge the poll outcome by the crowds one draws at public meetings.

One shouldn't always assume polls are wrong, but if anyone learned anything from 2016 and 2018, it's that polls are not always right.

In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.

I've always done pretty well for myself here in the U.K., but I was never going to be content being a big fish in a small pond.

My entire life, I just wanted a pony, and I couldn't care less about a pair of shoes.

Pony' was one of the biggest songs of my career. It was really hard to follow that up.

The press pool was taking bets on how many months I would last. There was nobody in the state who thought I had any shot at being a good senator.

There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'

As players we're held accountable for poor performance, I think the same should be said for journalists.

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

What I try to do is defy expectations in terms of boundaries, whether it is high or low art, pop culture, or fine-art culture. My work is about reconciling myriad cultural influences and bringing them into one picture.

When you're a pop star it doesn't mean you just get free stuff.

I was not a good singer. You know those children who are like, 'I'm gonna be a pop star,' and they sound amazing from the day they were born? I was not like that.

I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

A rock star is expected to act like a mess, sound like a mess and look like a mess. People don't expect you to show up on time and be a professional. But when you're a pop star, you have to do all that, look perfect and be a role model.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

I don't think I'll ever become a pop star.

It was kind of like, my worst crime was that I was a pop star.

I never wanted to be a pop star.

I used to sit in my bedroom and think that all of my favourite pop stars go on stage, they sing, and then they do other normal stuff. I didn't know what goes on or what you let yourself in for.