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Dreaming is one thing, and working towards the dream is one thing, but working with expectations in mind is very self-defeating. -- Michael Landon
I have a lot of expectations and a lot of goals I want to fulfill, but the biggest dream is still to make the Olympic team for London. -- Shawn Johnson
I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised. -- Karl Pilkington
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams. -- Annie Lennox
She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public. -- Morris Dees
Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family. -- Trey Anastasio
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment. -- John Henrik Clarke
You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time. -- Jenna Fischer
I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm. -- Laura Mennell
I went into the 'Idol' audition with no expectations; that's just the kind of person I am. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't hurt so badly, you know? But once I made it past the first round, and the second, and third - I started to realize, 'Maybe my goals and dreams really are attainable.' -- Crystal Bowersox
Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations. -- Ryunosuke Satoro
I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations. -- Tim Rice
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams. -- James Franco
Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations. -- Santosh Kalwar
I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams. -- David Oakes
Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations. -- Debra Evans
Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others' expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams. -- Meb Keflezighi
Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt. -- Elizabeth Bowen

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