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• I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Beneficial

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• Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

  Erica Jong

  People, Want, Firsts

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• It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

  Sam Kinison

  Rocks, People, Giants

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• The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.

  Allen Klein

  Country, Tragedy, World

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• The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Skulls, Brain, Tissues

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• Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Two, Statistics, Emotion

  "National Security Depends on the Nation’s Food Security" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2013.

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• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  Talib Kweli

  Kids, Should, Young

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• I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Mother, Father, Remember

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• The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

  Anne Lamott

  Birthday, Celebrate, Worst

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• I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because I thought that was a very interesting statement to make through the media. And it certainly did cause quite a few ripples and interest and shock waves.

  Annie Lennox

  Powerful, Men, Media

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• The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.

  Alex Lifeson

  Thinking, Littles, Changing Your Life

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• The Constitution is constant. There's not one elected official who has the power to change it. There is a way to amend the Constitution, and the Constitution spells out the procedures that must be taken to change it. Presidents cannot. Now, I know this is gonna shock many of you in the low-information community.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Community, President

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• We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

  Loretta Lynn

  Halloween, Mean, Tipping

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.31, Vintage

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• Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

  Norman Mailer

  Lying, Sentimental, Each Day

  1959 Advertisements for Myself,'First Advertisement for Myself'.

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• I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

  John Mayer

  Player, Guitar, Singers

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• What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

  Dennis Miller

  Business, War, Taken

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• Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Pain, Emotion, Draws

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• When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Mother, Morning, Brother

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• When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

  Susan Orlean

  Lying, Home, Son

  "Facts of Life" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

  Thomas Paine

  Children, Motivation, Fear

  The Age of Reason pt. 1 (1794)

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• When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.

  Jane Pauley

  Character, Years, Knowing

  "TAKE ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley". www.pbs.org. 2008.

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• The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.

  Christine Pelosi

  Jocks, Free Market, Rant

  "Long Time Coming: Why Rush Limbaugh Must Go" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran.

  Shimon Peres

  Iran, Young Generation, People

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• It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

  Josh Radnor

  Kindness, Thinking, People

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

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• Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

  Jules Renard

  Truth, Power, Appeals

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