Surprise Quotes - Page 7

• Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other hominids). That determines what we call their nature.

  Noam Chomsky

  Littles, Separation, Hominids

  Source: libcom.org

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• You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you go to see movies and then only see where the lights are, where the cuts are, watching it from a technical basis, nodding your head, "Oh, that was good." The feeling of surprise, the feeling of being transported is further away.

  David Copperfield

  School, Cutting, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

  Lena Dunham

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Conservative, Politician, Accustomed

  Source: progressive.org

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• It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons. What is clear to me, therefore, is that while the tragedy of war grinds on, the contemporary aesthetics of the tragedy seem not only confused but, in some way, suspicious.

  Paul Virilio

  Confused, War, Skeletons

  Source: ctheory.net

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• It's a big surprise to me about America that there are 40 million people prepared to vote for (Trump). They wouldn't want him as a friend. No matter who you are, you wouldn't want him on your bowling team or to have dinner with him or anything. They would recognize it immediately in a guy. A big blowhard, braggart.

  Randy Newman

  Team, America, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily.

  George Carlin

  Marijuana, Use, Tapering

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• In my experience, professionals who are best in any field approach their work with humility. They know that their work is more than just a job. It's an exploration of life. Even on days when they feel most confident, things can go wrong. Sometimes even the good things that happen are a mystery - a surprise. There are always elements outside our control. That's humbling - or should be.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Jobs, Humility, Elements

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.

  Michael Kenna

  Needs, Outcomes, Sometimes

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come at the end that I hadn't really planned or planted.

  George Saunders

  Book, Feelings, Ends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's fun to deal with the terror and the huge highs and lows of things. We're still getting massive surprises, every time you have any kind of Twilight-related event or anything.

  Robert Pattinson

  Fun, Twilight, Events

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The truth is that business is simple: create great products, merchandise them at the point of sale, continuously innovate and surprise, reward and achieve a position of loyalty with your front line, and seek new truth from the market. Deliver the goods at a competitive cost. Price to earn a decent but not competitively inviting return. Not much else matters.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Loyalty, Simple, Lines

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

  Greg Koukl

  Work Out, Evil, Rescue

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.

  Errol Morris

  New York, Thinking, Example

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at times that he had been chosen for this path, but he also understood that he was chosen for this path. He had several moments of acute doubt as to if he was up for the task - when people were injured in the protests he took it very personally, let alone when they were killed.

  David Oyelowo

  Kings, People, Leader

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the element of surprise remains with the protesters. We need to preserve the element of an intellectual ambush and a physical manifestation that takes the government and the police by surprise. It has to keep re-imagining itself, because holding territory may not be something the movement will be allowed to do in a state as powerful and violent as the United States.

  Arundhati Roy

  Powerful, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It was a such a surprise, such an absolute shocking surprise to me to not know what you're doing and to find out that this thing that you don't even know how to do, that you're sure you don't know how to do, speaks to so many people and touches so many people in some way.

  Judy Blume

  People, Way, Speak

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!

  Henry Louis Gates

  Names, Florida, People

  "Gates Unlocked: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The "The African Americans" Interview". Interview With Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. October 17, 2013.

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• As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism is New Deal Liberalism. In fact, his actual policies would not have been a great surprise to General Eisenhower. The fact that this is called a "political revolution" is a sign of how far to the right the political spectrum has shifted, mainly in the last 30 years since the neoliberal programs began to be instituted. What he was calling for was a restoration of something like New Deal Liberalism, which is a very good thing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Political Revolution, Years

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really conflicted person. Some people would say he's masochistic . I don't really know, but I've always loved his reverence and his mindfulness.

  Denison Witmer

  Zero, People, Expectations

  Source: sojo.net

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• I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Powerful, Believe, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My biggest surprise when I became a mom was how I had so much love inside me to give to someone.

  Alyssa Milano

  Mom, Giving, Much Love

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Angels emerge from the presence of God and worship of God, are sent on mission for our redemption, so it doesn't surprise me to read in the Bible of angels leading us into the presence of God in worship.

  Scot McKnight

  Angel, Redemption, Worship

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises.

  Pope Francis

  People, Mexican, Population

  "Full text of Pope Francis' in-flight interview from Mexico to Rome". www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 18, 2016.

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• You have to get autistic kids out and expose them to things, but do this without any surprises, so they know what to expect. You have to find skilled mentors to teach them things. For me, it was an aunt, and it was my science teacher. You need to find the things they're interested in and good at and expand on this.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Kids, Aunt

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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