Shocked Quotes - Page 13

• When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Ensemble, Comedy, Talent

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

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• Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dad, Home, Alzheimer's

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

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• It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

  Kirk Hammett

  Guitar, Fans, Solo

  "Extended Q&A: Kirk Hammett of Metallica". Interview with Brandy McDonnell, newsok.com. November 18, 2008.

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• I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Home, Sleep, Nightlife

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• Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Zuckerberg, Ongoing, World

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• It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

  Noel Coward

  Honesty, Lying, People

  Noel Coward (1979). “Plays, four”, Methuen Drama

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• People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

  Alice Cooper

  Thinking, People, Female

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Hands, Bored

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• I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

  David Bailey

  Type

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• Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

  Russell Baker

  War, People, Culture

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• If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Understanding, Quantum Physics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Offended You, Views, Giving

  "The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Democrats". Book by Martin Higgins, p. 93, 2006.

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• No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

  George W. Bush

  Feelings, Weapons, Stills

  George W. Bush (2010). “Decision Points”, p.262, Random House

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• I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.

  Nicolas Cage

  Doctors, Eight, Blood

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• I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right' and 'The Drew Carey Show,' then you might be a little bit shocked. I'm a little dirty and a little opinionated but all in fun.

  Drew Carey

  Fun, Dirty, Thinking

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• To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

  Amy Chua

  Parent, Asian, Honest

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• I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Ideas, White

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• To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Mean, Ideas, Moral

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• I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

  Jack Kemp

  Sound, Republican, Economic

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• I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Listening, Different

  "Why Technology Didn’t Kill the Radio Star". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 28, 2013.

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• It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

  John Green

  Real, Alaska, World

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.

  Walter Annenberg

  Tape, Heard, Saddened

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• At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams I confided to my father were of becoming a scholar in good earnest, and going to University. It was unheard-of several shocked governesses were only too quick to tell me, when I spoke a little too boldly -- but my father nodded and smiled and said, 'We'll see.' Since I believed my father could do anything -- except of course make me pretty -- I worked and studied with passionate dedication, lived in hope, and avoided society and mirrors.

  Robin McKinley

  Dream, Father, Book

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• Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Eye, Abortion, Mind

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.55, Dubois Publishing

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• [A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.

  Tracy Hickman

  Couple, Book, Writing

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