Shock Quotes - Page 18

• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Religious, College, Rights

  Feisal Abdul Rauf (2012). “Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

  Brent Scowcroft

  September 11, September, Incredibles

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• In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

  Joshua Leonard

  Character, Shining, Connections

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• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Wife, Cry

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• The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

  Matt Stone

  Thinking, People, Culture

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

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• I think the producers, for the most part, don't want to see prices skyrocket because that will only create problems for them down the road and would also be a, you know, would be a very serious shock for a world economy that can't afford serious shocks right now.

  Daniel Yergin

  Thinking, World, Want

  "CNN American Morning with Paula Zahn". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2002.

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• I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.

  Will Ferrell

  Guitar, Hip Hop, Soul

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't really go into shock around celebrity.

  Chad VanGaalen

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Average, Would Be

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• A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.

  Charles C. Mann

  Europe, Innovation, Paper

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• It's kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It's new water, and new air quality.

  Shay Mitchell

  Air, Water, Skins

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• The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

  Ed Markey

  Abuse, Photograph, Treatment

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• I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

  Eva Zeisel

  Be Kind, Grotesque, Wanted

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• When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms,
  we find out who we really are. We’re so little, so poor, so emptyand a shock to ourselves. But the Biblical God takes away our shame,
  and we are eventually able to present ourselves in an honest and humble form.
  Then we find out who we really are and who God is for usand it is more than enough. That is how an enslaved people became God’s people, Israel.

  Aaron Lines

  Taken, Humble, Biblical

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• I can't wait to shock the doubters and prove I'm better and stronger than I was before.

  Derrick Rose

  Waiting, Stronger, Doubters

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• I began to think that there was a place for 'Footloose' to get retold again, that there was actually a more conducive political climate, an emotional climate to explore a town that has experienced a trauma and a shock, and starts overreacting.

  Craig Brewer

  Emotional, Thinking, Starting Over

  "Footloose's Craig Brewer, Julianne Hough, and Kenny Wormald". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.

  Ransom Riggs

  Forever, Would Be, Half

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.9, Quirk Books

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• Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

  Max Planck

  Science, Troops, Accounts

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• Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hate, Men, Electric Shock

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• I prefer to shock rather than to bore through repetition.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Repetition, Bores

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• For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.240, Delphi Classics

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• I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

  Richard Bach

  Reality, Form, Caught

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• You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.

  William Shatner

  Actors, Rehearsal, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

  John Waters

  Dirty, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after.

  John Waters

  Real, Surprise, Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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