Shocked Quotes - Page 8

• I don't go for films that exalt violence. I don't want them in my house. Sometimes my children see them. But nowadays they do it so truthfully and with so much passion that you are shocked.

  Sophia Loren

  Children, Passion, House

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I was about 12 or 13 years old. I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend ,just as if it were a novel, very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Weekend, Years

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• Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Earning, Realizing

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at times that he had been chosen for this path, but he also understood that he was chosen for this path. He had several moments of acute doubt as to if he was up for the task - when people were injured in the protests he took it very personally, let alone when they were killed.

  David Oyelowo

  Kings, People, Leader

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm shocked, like all of us, including Donald Trump, 'cause let's not pretend that even Donald Trump thought he was going to win this election.

  Margaret Hoover

  Winning, Causes, Election

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The attacks in Orlando - the worst mass shooting and the worst attack on the LGBTQ community in our history - shocked the conscience of our nation.

  Donald Trump

  Mass Shootings, Community, Orlando

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• One comment by a female lobbyist really shocked me. She said, "Washington is a contact sport." I asked, "What do you mean by that?" And she just said, "Well, it's all men - and they're very contact-y. They touch a lot." Women say that's just part of the game.

  Jessica Chastain

  Sports, Mean, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was really shocked after all of this talk about coal miners and all of this talk about Buy America, the Republicans and the House of Representatives gutted health care and pension protections for coal miners and removed the Buy America provision that had been put in the bill in a bipartisan basis.

  Claire McCaskill

  Coal Miners, America, House

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I've stayed in so many hotel rooms that I'm shocked if, when I stay in a hotel room, the hotel phone isn't on the desk. Then I'm like, "This isn't a real hotel room." If there's not outlets next to the desk, or if they have an iPhone adapter for an iPhone 4, that's when I'm sitting there annoyed. I understand that it's ridiculous, but that's just me spending way too much time in hotels.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Real, Iphone, Phones

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Book, History Books

  Twitter post from May 2, 2015

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• You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.

  William Kristol

  Reading, College, Watching Tv

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• I knew I had found my life's passion after writing my first column for The Washington Post. The response was like nothing we had seen in the business section. Everyday people were writing that finally someone was speaking to them in a way that was understandable. I think we were all shocked at how many readers wrote in to say that they too had a Big Mama who taught them about money.

  Michelle Singletary

  Passion, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Acting, Firsts

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it. Of course, some parts were cut.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Cutting, Doctors, People

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume. As a filmmaker, whenever I get that feeling, I want to explore what motivates people to engage in such offensive behavior and enlighten folks about its origins.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Color, White, Hair

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• In the past I was very open and very generous, and I found that it just exploded in my face. A lot of people weren't there for me when I needed them. So I have become a little shell shocked. Subsequently almost paranoid and frightened of people now. Maybe I'm losing out in meeting some marvelous people, but I am doing the only thing I can to save my spirit.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Past, People, Littles

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.

  Greg Graffin

  Running, Sorry, Wind Farms

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.

  Sharon Stone

  Beautiful, Hot, Saws

  "'I failed in everything but I picked myself up': Sharon Stone on fame, divorce and her brush with death" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. December 4, 2012.

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• I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

  George Carlin

  People, Essentials, Phrases

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.

  Slash

  Rose, Problem, Type

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was quite shocked at the tone I took and the judgements I had of the relationship that she embarked on, you know, sex with a minor. But it's the stuff of great drama.

  Cate Blanchett

  Sex, Drama, Judgement

  "Notes On A Scandal - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.

  Helen Keller

  Order, Unhappy, May

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• It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

  Bertrand Russell

  Nice, Omnipotence, People

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt . . . spent billions of public money and created a huge public debt, but by so doing he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen, who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked, and although Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as 'the madman in the White House.' . . . [It's one more] striking example of inability to learn from experience.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Believe, White

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• We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

  Alan Greenspan

  Government, Self, Credit

  "Greenspan Admits Free Market Ideology Flawed". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 24, 2008.

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