Shocking Quotes - Page 11

• The dumbest women I hooked up with were in Florida. I lived in Florida for a year... and it was just shocking. I literally felt like after living there for a couple months that I had become stupider. It was unbelievable. If you read the stories on my site that are based around crazy women, about 75 percent of those women were in Florida… and I only lived there for a year.

  Tucker Max

  Couple, Crazy, Florida

  "Uncommon Interview: Tucker Max". Interview with Jen Glickel, www.chicagomaroon.com. May 17, 2005.

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• When someone changes your face, it's really shocking and scary.

  Miley Cyrus

  Scary, Faces, Your Face

  "The Radical Honesty of Miley Cyrus". Interview with Amanda Fitzsimons, www.elle.com. September 27, 2016.

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• What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

  George Will

  America, Done, Illegal

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When you go to a club you can talk intimately to strangers you have never met before. And they will tell you things that will be shocking to hear. Because, on the whole, people behave honestly in this situation. At the same time they can be very false.

  Eddy de Clercq

  People, Clubs, Stranger

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Character, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate. A new fact so shocking that even the year's most notable deaths have not outdone it for the volume (in both senses) of instant reaction; so divisive, it makes Brexit, the Labour leadership and the US Presidential election seem lesser ruptures.

  David Bennun

  Years, Presidential, Rupture

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, People, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Whatever is going on wrong in America today, you cannot pin it on Donald Trump. He's not been there. He has not one fingerprint. He hasn't done one thing regarding anything policy-wise that's happening in the country today, and I think this is why his candidacy is so shocking and frightening to both establishment and Republican Democrats.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Wise, Country, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The world may hold startling developments and shocking unknowns.

  Jon Spaihts

  Development, World, May

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I still have so much gratitude for being part of something so great that is still around 20 years later, played in school and still getting the recognition that it gets. It is shocking, but then like I said, it's timeless so it isn't.

  Quindon Tarver

  Gratitude, School, Years

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• [Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's not a shocker, but then it is. I guess so because I'm in it, so it's shocking that it's still on TV. People are still talking about it. Hey, I'm still getting royalty checks from it. It's amazing to me and I hope it continues forever.

  Quindon Tarver

  Talking, People, Forever

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

  Mitch Albom

  Teacher, Cities, Priorities

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

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• Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool.

  Morgan Saylor

  Sex, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Copying, Way

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• AIDS is big business, maybe Africa's biggest business. There's nothing else that can generate as much aid money as shocking figures on AIDS. AIDS is a political disease here, and we should be very skeptical.

  James Shikwati

  Political, Disease, Aids

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.

  Edward Said

  September 11, Events, Found

  Source: progressive.org

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• Every time I caught a fish, I wondered how something so small could have such clear, pure strength. It kept reminding me of another sensation, from another realm. The fish on the line, I eventually realized, felt like the baby, kicking inside you. Or the shocking, life-hungry pull of the baby on the breast. Perhaps fishing is like quickening for men, a long and patient wait for a few electric moments when they feel connected to another life.

  Marni Jackson

  Baby, Men, Fishing

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• Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.

  Bill Maher

  Animal, Whales, Play

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• Even if people aren't Republicans, it doesn't seem shocking to them that Ronald Reagan was the president. Well of course, because Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor! This is not only a bar too low, this is no bar at all. I don't care who you are, you know 20 people smarter than Ronald Reagan. You know 20 people who would be a better president than Ronald Reagan.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, President, Would Be

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.

  George Carlin

  Wall, Patriotic, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I remember being a teenager and having a boyfriend - this guy I thought I was way better than, and completely out of his league. He was a year younger than me. And he broke up with me. It was so shocking, and I couldn't believe it.

  Jessica Chastain

  Teenager, Believe, Years

  "Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy on 'Eleanor Rigby,' First Heartbreak, and Robin Williams". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  Black, Depth, Connections

  Douglas A. Blackmon (2012). “Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two”, p.381, Icon Books

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• Who among us is not at a loss for words? Tears pour out. Tears of joy. Tears of relief. A stunning, whopping landslide of hope in a time of deep despair. In a nation that was founded on genocide and then built on the backs of slaves, it was an unexpected moment, shocking in its simplicity: Barack Obama, a good man, a black man, said he would bring change to Washington, and the majority of the country liked that idea.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Loss, Men

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• I want to communicate with people, and I want to make something that works, and that people like. I'm never purposefully trying to be antagonistic or shocking or anything that would push an audience away. I'm always hoping to reach as many people as I can.

  Joe Swanberg

  People, Trying, Want

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Donald Trump has fired a campaign adviser for posting racist remarks on Facebook. Isn't that shocking? Donald Trump has a campaign adviser.

  Conan O'Brien

  Campaigns, Racist, Trump

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