Supposed Quotes

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

I'm always looking for cool stuff to do because that's what we're supposed to do, ya know?

I don't have to say 'Rap it up' every two seconds, or 'Don't do drugs' every two seconds. They know they're not supposed to use drugs, and they know they're supposed to put a condom on.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

I do, kind of, spend a lot. And just on stupid things. Because I don't really know what to do. What are you supposed to do? Um. It just seems like way too much. We don't deserve it, at all, for what we do.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.

I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.

Teens aren't just interested in getting laid. I won't believe that's all they're interested in. I have four younger sisters and they're sick of being shown how they're supposed to react in bed.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

You know how you're supposed to choose between playing up your eyes or your lips? I always choose lips. I love the drama.

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do.

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream.

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?