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• You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

  Ray Romano

  Character, Opposites, Play

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• Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

  Bertrand Russell

  Elderly, Umpires, Ignorant

  Look Magazine, February 23, 1954.

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• Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Harder, Expected

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• When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Reason, Polemics, Electrical

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• Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

  Will Self

  Communication, Media, People

  "Chris the saviour" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 1997.

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• I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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

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• When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Evil

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• It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

  Gertrude Stein

  Sadness, Friendly, Literature

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6132, Delphi Classics

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• To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Fiction, Mystery, Shock And Awe

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

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• As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Children, Adults, Hideous

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• I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

  Gene Tierney

  Home, Agriculture, Medication

  "Self-Portrait".

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• Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Time, Stress

  1970 Future Shock.

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• Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Men, Overwhelmed

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• In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Daughter, Mother, Cancer

  "After Suffering Loss, Iyanla Vanzant Starts Over". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

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• True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

  George Washington

  Friendship, True Friend, Inspiration

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783”, p.374

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• I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me.

  Ethel Waters

  Fog, Used, Treatment

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• It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

  Jacki Weaver

  Delight, Theater, Function

  "Jacki Weaver Interview Animal Kingdom". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

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• Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'

  Johnny Weir

  Kings, Mean, Men

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• Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Congratulations, Writing, Winning

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• After we were hit on September 11 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the USA Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

  Naomi Wolf

  September 11, Littles, October

  "Fascist America, in 10 easy steps" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

  Neil Young

  Men, People, Agree

  "Neil Young Returns to the Harvest: Music Legend Talks 'Harvest Moon' LP". Interview with Alan Light, www.rollingstone.com. January 21, 1993.

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• Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Impact, World

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.

  Colm Toibin

  Fun, Intelligent, Australia

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• One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Passion, One Day, Driven

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.192, Penguin

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• I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.

  Dorothy Parker

  Happy Endings, Billions, Humans

  Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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