Surprise Quotes - Page 8

• I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.

  Matt Hardy

  Fun, Wrestling, People

  Source: www.rohwrestling.com

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• It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Divorce, Common, Collision

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• The beautiful thing about having grown up in Brooklyn is, because of the rich cultural and racial diversity there, no one seemed to give too much thought to where I fit on the racial spectrum. But there were times when I would run up against someone who was interested in figuring out what race was. That would come as a surprise, and in some cases, like a slap in the face.

  Wentworth Miller

  Beautiful, Running, Race

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country. There isn't much flexibility in changing people's perspectives.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Country, People, Perspective

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.

  Derek Cianfrance

  Giving, Actors, Failing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Things happen in a way that surprises. That's why I'm reluctant to predict. You cannot predict.

  Amira Hass

  Way, Happens, Reluctant

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I separate the performer from the private citizen because it works for me. That gives the surprise element to my show. It doesn't change my playing. But if in a business suit they would think I was crazy. It's like putting Marlene Dietrich in a housedress.

  Liberace

  Crazy, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What people generally tell you is, "We'll all agree," and then once you sign, they expect to get their own way. I think it was a bit of a surprise that I was still very headstrong even after signing. I wasn't so happy to get a deal that I would agree to anything. In fact, I disagreed on most things and got my way on most things, which I think was to all of our benefit. But they wanted the record to come out, and I wanted the record to come out, so we had to work together.

  Nellie McKay

  Thinking, People, Working Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love investigating the natural world, and I find a lot of truths there, truths about survival and beauty - nature continually surprises me (amazing how clever a woodchuck is, amazing how plants roots can break up concrete, amazing how delicious the thimbleberry is!).

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Clever, Survival, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My poems are certainly in the lyric tradition, but perhaps a reader can tell me more precisely who I am as a poet. How can I be so old and not know? I have always been deeply grateful for the urge to write, the desire to create, that's certain. Writing has always been the way I make sense of life. Perhaps my poems define me, rather than the other way around. They do constantly surprise me.

  Connie Wanek

  Grateful, Writing, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because we take these huge long breaks, and then I just kind go, "Okay, fine, this is the way that I've chosen to live my life, and if the band now fades into obscurity, so be it, that's my decision." But then we come back and it's still as big as ever, or bigger. It's always been a surprise to me, that it worked out that way.

  Milo Aukerman

  Long, Decision, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time. And then you can really surprise yourself. There's that cliche, "No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader!"

  George Saunders

  Dark, Thinking, Cliche

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they hide among peaceful populations and launch surprise attacks on civilians. They have no armed forces per se, no territory or citizens to defend and no fear of dying during their attacks.

  John Yoo

  Religious, War, Peaceful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Computers get better, faster than anything else ever. A child's PlayStation today is more powerful than a military supercomputer from 1996. But our brains are wired for a linear world. As a result, exponential trends take us by surprise. I used to teach my students that there are some things, you know, computers just aren't good at like driving a car through traffic.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Powerful, Military, Car

  "The key to growth? Race with the machines". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

  Glenda Bailey

  Team, People, Everyday

  Source: wwd.com

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• Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary. Surrender is a state of living in the flow, trusting what is, and being open to serendipity and surprises.

  Judith Orloff

  Mean, Healthy, Serendipity

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• My brother is like, "You are a Victoria's Secret Angel?" He cannot believe it. When I told him the first time he was like, "You? On that catwalk?" So it's such an amazing surprise for me in my career to be able to do this.

  Elsa Hosk

  Brother, Believe, Angel

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• My questions did surprise some people. Others didn't bat an eye. That happens with all my books - I'll read them in a certain mood and think, "Gosh, what was I thinking that day? This is really kind of odd." But on other days it seems totally normal to me.

  Laurie Keller

  Book, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• One interesting thing - I play bass and guitar and stuff like that. I know those instruments really well. But I don't know how to play clarinet or trombone or any of these other instruments. I don't actually know how to play ukulele even though I've played it a lot in the past. Because of the weird tuning it's not exactly like a guitar. That's one of the reasons I like that instrument - it makes for surprises. It's not so predictable as the bass or the guitar is for me.

  Jherek Bischoff

  Past, Interesting, Reason

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I prefer to feel uncomfortable by participating in projects were I am not the specialist. I am always the one who knows nothing. Playing with jazzmen and knowing nothing about jazz. Playing pop music and knowing nothing about how to structure a pop song. And the funny thing, which still surprises me, is that I continue to be invited to play by new people, from different areas, every day.

  Gaspar Claus

  Song, People, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It does sound like a surprise, but it shouldn't be surprising. The Canada-U.S. trade relationship is still the world's largest. And a relationship that size always generates disputes. And this particular dispute on lumber tariff didn't fall out of a clear spring sky. It's been going on for literally decades. It's rooted in the different way Canada and the United States charges forestry companies for the trees that they cut down and turn into lumber.

  Donald Trump

  Spring, Fall, Cutting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I used to get great press. I get the worst press. I get such dishonest reporting with the media. I've never had anything like it before. It happened during the primaries, and I said, you know, when I won, I said, "Well the one thing good is now I'll get good press." And it got worse. So that was one thing that a little bit of a surprise to me. I thought the press would become better, and it actually, in my opinion, got more nasty.

  Donald Trump

  Nasty, Opinion, Worst

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I try not to plan more than 24 hours ahead at any given point. If I've learned anything, it's that you just can't plan. Whatever you think is going to happen never does, and there's always the X factor that always comes up and surprises you.

  Chris Demetral

  Thinking, Trying, Hours

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 5, 2003.

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• The Democrats are losing. And look, folks, I don't mean to beat a dead horse here. I'm not doing anything other than pointing out what's actually factually happening. I'm not drawing any inferences from it. The Democrats are actually losing as themselves. They are losing elections if they are honest about what they want to do. It doesn't surprise me at all that Jon Ossoff would be running around.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Horse, Mean

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a lot of it is very subtle, and it catches you by surprise later on. So I don't want to go overboard on this.

  Gary Sick

  Football, Moving, Chess

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