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• I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Actors, Kind, Speak

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• Very honest, I hope. God, I don't know. I hope I'm fun, I hope I am a good time. Spontaneous, surprising, affectionate? I hope, kind. Dancing a lot of dancing. I insist upon dancing. Anywhere. Anytime. The more dancing, the better

  Tom Hiddleston

  Fun, Dancing, Good Times

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• Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh, Hell — just gorgeously written!

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Baby, Smart, Moving

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• Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

  William Deresiewicz

  Ifs

  William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.74, Penguin

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• Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Strong, Theatre, Able

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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• I can honestly say that probably 95% of the things I was afraid of, it turned out I had no reason to be. So drop fear by the wayside. Just... let it go. Then make way for a surprising tomorrow.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Let It Go, Way, Tomorrow

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 14, 2016

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• I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.

  Bill Joy

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Evil

  "Be very afraid of the future", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2000.

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• It should not be surprising if people believe easily in a God who makes no demands, but this is not the God of the Bible. Satan has cleverly misled people by whispering that they can believe in Jesus Christ without being changed, but this is the Devil's lie. To those who say you can have Christ without giving anything up, Satan is deceiving you.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Lying, Believe

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• The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is something else, something rising and contagious and surprising. It isn't aware of itself. It isn't keeping track. It isn't something you sign for. It's endless and generous and enveloping. It's in the drums, in the voices, in the bodies of the wounded made suddenly whole, by the music, by each other, dancing.

  Eve Ensler

  Love, Agency, Voice

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• The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Equality, Discovery, Cost

  "Robert Browning". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

  Edward Charles Titchmarsh

  Math, Logic, Reasoning

  "Mathematical Maxims and Minims". Book by Nicholas J. Rose, 1986.

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• The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

  Paul McGann

  Two, People, Six

  "This much I know" by Paul McGann, www.theguardian.com. June 04, 2011.

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

  Arielle Dombasle

  Want, Surprise, Know Yourself

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• In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.

  George Gilder

  Creativity, Hands, Order

  George Gilder (2013). “Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World”, p.20, Regnery Publishing

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• It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Lying, Climate, Aliens

  "Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2010.

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• Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.

  R. L. Stine

  Happened, Has Beens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Writing, Fire

  "Why Write?" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. October 15, 2007.

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• I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.

  Brittany Snow

  Girl, Mean, Fighting

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• Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

  David Attenborough

  Baby, Eye, Thinking

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• Surprising and interesting things happen to those who keep their eyes and their minds open and alert!

  John Templeton

  Eye, Interesting, Mind

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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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• It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Thinking, Perfect

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• I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Morning, Sea, Awakening

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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• L'univers?je l'en estime plus depuis que je sais qu'il ressemble a'   une montre; il est surprenant que l'ordre de la nature, tout admirable qu'il est, ne roule que sur des choses si simples. I have come to esteem the universe more now that I know it resembles a watch; it is surprising that the order of nature, as admirable as it is, only runs on such simple things.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Running, Simple, Order

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• Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz." She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?" "Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters.

  Rick Riordan

  Dream, Jobs, Islands

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