Shock Quotes - Page 17

• It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

  Belinda Carlisle

  Stars, Pops, Full Life

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• Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.

  Tom Conti

  Said, Related

  "DNA project reveals Tom Conti's Napoleonic blood and rich roots of Scotland's genetic legacy" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.

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• Whereas 'Avatar' and other movies get shocks out of their three-dimensionality, 'Gatsby' is going to be about inviting the audience into this larger-than-life drama, letting them almost be inside the room rather than looking at it through the window. I think it will really work.

  Joel Edgerton

  Drama, Thinking, Three

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

  Mem Fox

  Other Cultures, Appreciate, Giving

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• One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

  Richard Foreman

  Art, Doe, Audience

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• I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Night, Family And Friends, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

  John Amery

  Russia, People, Acting

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• After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  New Orleans, House, Pilots

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• Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.

  Elton John

  Rain, Tired, Doors

  Song: White Lady White Powder, Album: 21 At 33

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• The rain is sharp today, as you shock me sane.

  Tori Amos

  Art, Rain, Media

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• I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, 'as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.'

  Charles Darwin

  Religious, Science, Men

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• Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.

  Theodor Adorno

  Life, Empty, Timeless

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.54, Verso

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• Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

  Alan Jackson

  Sky, Sight, Blue

  "Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning)". Song by Alan Jackson, November 26, 2001.

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• A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Girl, People, Spices

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• I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Giving, Mind, Including

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

  Lauren Graham

  Doe, Television

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• Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.

  Sri Mulyani Indrawati

  Country, Issues, Expanding

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• Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

  Peter Singer

  Stress, Animal, Order

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• Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Together, Add

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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  Gary Kemp

  Dad, Thinking, Important

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• I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

  Julia Leigh

  Ideas, Cinema, World

  "Julia Leigh – Writer/Director of Sleeping Beauty". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 2, 2011.

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• Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

  Paul Nurse

  Philosophy, Real, Careers

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• Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

  Miranda Otto

  Media, Juggernaut, Kind

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• There's nothing you could say that would shock me.

  Laura Prepon

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Television, World, Private Life

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