I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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You never expect to get hurt, but you always know in the back of your mind things like that can happen. Just look how many athletes are sidelined by injuries.Patrick Cantlay
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I wouldn't give Charles Barkley an apology at gunpoint. He can never expect an apology from me... If anything, he owes me an apology for coming to play with his sorry, fat butt.Scottie Pippen
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Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.George Gaylord Simpson
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I never expect anything from anyone. The way that people support me, it makes me emotional. Because all I do every day is try to show up as me 100% and spread love to people, and to receive it back the way that I do - it is really mind-blowing.Tabitha Brown
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My goal was always to sell out theaters. When it happens you never expect it to be like it is, but you know it feels right.Josh Blue
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Simon and I are good pals. We're friends except when we walk out on 'The X Factor,' he always has a go at me. And I never expect it. We're good friends behind the scenes, we do Westlife together, we are friends.Louis Walsh
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I never expect anything. The more good things that happen the better, but I never expect anything.Jim Norton
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I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore I'm always pleasantly surprised.Lianne La Havas
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There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.Mike Gordon
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Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.Brian May
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The three of us just try put our heads down and stay creative. The awards truly are just cake. It's one of those things that you never expect, but getting the head nod from either the fans or your peers, that's the ultimate compliment.Hillary Scott
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I was a huge 'Pyromania' fan. You would never expect it, but I was in love with Iron Maiden; I was such a huge fan. I went to a lot of rock stuff like Van Halen, too.Tiesto
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Never expect that your startup can cover every aspect of the market. The key is knowing what segment will respond to your unique offering. Who your product appeals to is just as important as the product itself.Jay Samit
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Whatever show I go to, no matter what it is - and I go to a lot of them - people say, 'Wow, I'd never expect to see you here.' I always say, 'Where do you expect to see me?'Davey Havok
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I hoped that Obama would be a delivery vehicle for change on issues I care about, but I never expect one politician to be the solution to the diverse array of issues I care about.Shepard Fairey
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I have to say 'Celebrity Apprentice' is an eye-opener - what people call each other, what people say about each other. This is different - because this is a business atmosphere, you would never expect it. There was a lot of cattiness going on. It was something that I wasn't used to.Teresa Giudice
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I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.Robert Battle
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The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.John Tukey
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107 caps isn't bad for someone who isn't 'a top, top player', is it? I never expected to get that amount of caps. When I made my debut, I set myself the personal target of trying to get 50 caps and score 10 goals if I could. So to have 107 is something I am really proud of, particularly being among those names.Steven Gerrard
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As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.Chris Bohjalian
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You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.Werner Klemperer
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Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.Melanie Laurent
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I never expect anything; I just go make a movie. I do the best I can, and whatever happens, happens.Steve Zahn
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You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.Carolina Herrera
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Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.Bryant H. McGill
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I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.John A. Logan
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No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life.Jesse James
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I never expect anything from anybody. I'm a bit Scottish like that - I don't like to be disappointed and let down. I like to take life very slowly.Rosamunde Pilcher
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Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.Butch Trucks
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You can never expect things to happen like they did the last time. You still have to put in the work.Kyle Korver
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Look, the reality is that people will pay more for a match when Wayne Rooney is playing than when I am playing. I will never expect to be paid the same as Wayne Rooney, because I am not Wayne Rooney. And there's no getting around that.Eniola Aluko
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I never expect someone to work with me forever. I want to give you the experience needed so that when it is time to pursue what you want to in life you are ready.Angela Yee
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I always thought great storytelling should seem spontaneous but also inevitable, like you would never expect it, but once it happens, it couldn't happen any other way.Fred Hechinger
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When the Obama administration announced its 'reset' of relations with Russia in 2009, Americans never expected that it would include making Vladimir Putin the de facto U.S. ambassador to Syria in 2013.John Barrasso
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I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.Eric Walters
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Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.Margaret Cho
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Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.Marcel Duchamp
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I can't believe I've met the royal family. It's, like, one of those things you never expect to do in your life.Tom Walker
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I'm usually rough during Spring Training. My Spring Training numbers aren't very good, but I never expect them to be.J. D. Martinez
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I never expect those type of dudes to even listen to my music but for one of those Juggalos to come up to me like, 'Man, that 'All My Life' record, man you was talking to me.' That struck me like, 'Damn, maybe people, you never know who's listening and who you might be touching with your music.'Jay Rock
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When I prepare for a fight, I never expect it to be easy. I believe that that would create a chance for me to not give my best in the Octagon.Lyoto Machida
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We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.Ali Smith
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As an actor, you should always keep your trump card hidden from your audience. I want the audience to keep expecting more and more from me. I want to do 'different' work - good and memorable roles - so that audience appreciate me more. That's why I love to surprise my audience with something they never expect me to do.Rithvik Dhanjani
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Sometimes, in the last minute, against big teams... you never expect you have the chance to win, but there is that 'garra' that everyone talks about.Diego Forlan
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