Shocking Quotes - Page 17

• My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, People, Dare

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• Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.

  Sally Hogshead

  Business, Ideas, Marketing

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• Messages that fail to fascinate will become irrelevant.

  Sally Hogshead

  Marketing, Messages, Helpful

  Sally Hogshead (2010). “Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.

  Ron Suskind

  Son, Ideas, Would Be

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

  Guido Palau

  People, Challenges, Surprise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He is the ugliest thing I have ever seen. I have watched Lord of the Rings and films with strange looking people, but for a human being to look like he does is pretty shocking.

  David Haye

  Motivation, People, Doe

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• To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.

  Edward Norton

  School, Yale, Practice

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Thinking, Yesterday

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think every doctor should know the shocking state of affairs...We discovered they (the FDA) failed to effectively regulate the large manufacturers and powerful interests while recklessly persecuting the small manufacturers. ...(The FDA is) harassing (small) manufacturers and doctors...(and) betrays the public trust.

  Edward V. Long

  Powerful, Dark, Thinking

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• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  Adam McKay

  People, Dangerous, Folks

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• The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it’s gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier than having a company that reflects society, to have dancers onstage that people can relate to.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Art, Ideas, White

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• R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.

  Joe Zee

  Creative, Soul, Genius

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• The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

  Djuna Barnes

  Self, Truth Is, Customs

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• I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

  Regina Spektor

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "What Regina Spektor Sees From the Cheap Seats". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. May 2012.

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• Like journalists. The police have an extremely sick sense of humor, very guarded, very private, very male, which they need to survive on an everyday level. I don't think anyone has ever managed to tap that on the screen - it would actually be too shocking.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Sick, Police

  "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

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• One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Hey, May, Facts

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• They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

  Jim Perrin

  Climbing, Solitary Life, Mind

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• Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.

  Frank Warren

  Silly, People, Humanity

  "Why Would You Share A Secret With A Stranger?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. January 23, 2015.

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• I had a brother who died early on - he was 23 when I was 19. And, boy, I certainly didn't expect that. That was utterly shocking.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Brother, Boys, Died

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Isis, Common Humanity

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Nothing I do is salacious or provocative or shocking for the sake of that.

  Rami Malek

  Sake, Provocative

  Source: collider.com

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• I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Goal, Needs

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• If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Mistake, Mean, Color

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

  Bill Condon

  People, Homosexual, Kicks

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• When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward.

  Nikki Cox

  Nice, People, Awkward

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