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• The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

  Lynda Barry

  Couple, School, Kids

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• Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

  Annie Besant

  Religious, Earthquakes, Soul

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

  David Bowie

  Years, Hell, Cliche

  "St. David Bowie? Not yet, but faith leaders pay respects to dead rocker" by David Gibson, www.washingtonpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I like to shock people.

  Jo Brand

  People

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• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Military, War

  "Buy American. I Am." by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. October 16, 2008.

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• I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

  George W. Bush

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  A. S. Byatt

  Book, Later In Life, Giving

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• Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

  Nicolas Cage

  Fun, Doors, Stills

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• Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

  Michael Caine

  Careers, Awards, Firsts

  "Success? I never expected it, says Caine" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 1999.

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• That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

  Diablo Cody

  Laughter, Writing, Two

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• To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.

  Phil Collins

  Firsts, Labels, Records

  "Phil Collins goes "Back" to Motown favorites". Interview with Craig McLean, www.reuters.com. September 10, 2010.

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• Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock.

  Simon Cowell

  Goes On, Bigs, Factors

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• Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

  Park Chan-wook

  May, Way, Cinema

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• I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

  Park Chan-wook

  Glasses, Musician, Doe

  "Park Chan-wook Talks Differences Between Korean & American Films, How ‘Stoker’ Fits In With His Filmography & More". Interview with Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

  Beth Ditto

  Crazy, Order, Special

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

  Brian Eno

  Impact, Decline, Inevitable

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• Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

  Brian Eno

  Smart, Thinking, Self

  "Pushing Back the Limits of Speech and Music". Interview with Ben Sisario, www.nytimes.com. July 4, 2011.

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• In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

  Brian Eno

  America, Events, September

  "Lessons in how to lie about Iraq" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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• Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

  Annette Funicello

  Annette Funicello, Norman Vincent Peale, Christopher Reeve, Michael J. (CON) Fox (2008). “Stories to Comfort the Soul”, GuidepostsBooks

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• My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Grief, Sleep, Heart

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• Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.

  Timothy Geithner

  Past, Stronger, Shock Absorber

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• No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

  Billy Graham

  Sympathy, Hurt, Condolences

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• Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

  Augustus Hare

  Vices, Littles, Too Much

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• I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.

  Naomie Harris

  Home, Leaving, Blame

  "Naomie Harris: 'I want to play Elizabeth Bennet'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

  James Hillman

  Hatred, Black, Patient

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