Quotes About Expectations

I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all, and I don't know how we can do this all.

People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

I'm a woman, and every woman wants to be skinnier - unfortunately.

I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

If people want me to be their role-model, it would be nice.

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

I don't think I'm good, I don't think I'm a good rapper. I think a lot of people always want me to battle somebody and stuff like that which is cool, but I don't see myself as a rapper.