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• I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

  Larry Niven

  Running, Believe

  Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.360, Macmillan

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• Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Nature, Exception To The Rule, Giving

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• I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

  Chris Patten

  Cutting, Thinking, Vulgarity Is

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• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  Vernon A. Walters

  Endless, Expected, Procession

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• That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

  Peter Bart

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• When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

  Lance Henriksen

  Small Moments, Scripts, Fantasy

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• It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Morning, Thinking, House

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• I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

  Bob Barker

  Natural Talent, Care, May

  "Bob Barker Comes on Down for the Last Time". The Tampa Bay Times Interview, www.tampabay.com. October 31, 2006.

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• If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Real, Goes On, Pages

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• I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

  Christopher Walken

  Movie, Successful, Made

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• Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

  Derek Walcott

  Beauty, Landscape, Natural

  Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.68, Macmillan

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• The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Writing, Math, Science

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.59, Cambridge University Press

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• Do not know yourself. I want to continue to surprise me.

  Arielle Dombasle

  Want, Know Yourself, Surprising

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• Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

  Keith Jarrett

  Would Be, Attention, Novices

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• The eye is made to see and not to think.... A good photograph is a surprise. How could we plan and foresee a surprise? We just have to be ready.

  Marc Riboud

  Eye, Thinking, Photograph

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• I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Want

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• Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Australia, People

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• And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

  Tony Abbott

  Commitment, Government, People

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• We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, No Excuses, Coalitions

  "Tony Abbott calls on PM to 'name the date'". "7.30 Report" with Chris Uhlmann, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2013.

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• There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

  Tony Abbott

  Government, No Excuses, Coalitions

  "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. September 1, 2013.

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• There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

  Tony Abbott

  No Excuses, Excuse, Said

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• We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.

  Tony Abbott

  Commitment, Government, People

  "Doorstop Interview, Darwin". Doorstop Interview, Darwin, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. November 10, 2013.

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• It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

  Jesse Helms

  People, Reform, May

  "UNA Greater Philadelphia: U.S. Should Fund the U.N. in Full and On Time!" by Louis Bolling, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2017.

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• Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

  Jack Nicholson

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• If you are mindful of death, it will not come as a surprise-you will not be anxious. You will feel that death is merely like changing clothes. Consequently, at that point you will be able to maintain your calmness of mind.

  Dalai Lama

  Death, Clothes, Mind

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