Shock Quotes - Page 32

• I moved from Italy to Oregon in the '80s - sort of like moving to the middle of a "Duck Dynasty" episode, which was massive culture shock to say the least.

  Rose McGowan

  Moving, Oregon, Ducks

  "Exclusive Interview: Rose McGowan: The Agitator". Interview with Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock.

  Donna Karan

  Lasts, Would Be, Wonderful

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• Defy the pundits again and reach for a high voter turnout that'll shock the establishment.

  Bernie Sanders

  Voter Turnout, Voters, Pundits

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be considered a gradualist. He is not decreeing Sharia as the law of the land tomorrow. He’s making gradual steps to desecularize the country so it’s not a shock to everyone, doesn’t cause all kinds of panic in the western world and the Europe world. And ISIS might be growing impatient. Even though they’ve been allied over oil and Syria, ISIS could be growing impatient. Then they see the deal with Israel, and they say, “To hell with this.”

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Israel, Isis

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the nights when they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house; your lascivious schoolboy dreams of adulthood as a time when you are surrounded by exotic lingerie for ever and ever amen...those dreams crumble to dust.

  Nick Hornby

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.57, Penguin

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• I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

  Henry Rollins

  Book, Thinking, Doctrine

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• There is a reckoning coming, a reckoning between humanity and the Jewish people which will cause the very heavens to darken and the very devils in hell to hide their faces in shock and terror. You might say we owe them a Holocaust. We've been paying their bill for fifty years, and at some point we're finally going to get what we've paid for.

  Harold Covington

  Years, People, Holocaust

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• I'm still suffering from shock from the last war. I was almost drafted! Luckily I was wounded while taking the physical. When I reached the psychiatrist, I said, Give me a gun, I'll wipe out the whole German Army in five minutes. He said, You're crazy! I said, Write it down!

  Jackie Mason

  Crazy, War, Writing

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• I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Emotional, Thinking, People

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

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• Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

  Paul Virilio

  Winning, Messages, Digital

  Paul Virilio (2005). “The Information Bomb”, p.143, Verso

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• I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.

  Elin Nordegren

  Children, Grief, Loss

  "Elin Nordegren Speaks: 'I Feel Stronger Than I Ever Have'" by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. August 25, 2010.

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• What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.

  Sophie Ristelhueber

  Bombs, Swallowing, Impression

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• I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a societal and historical referent needed to be both safeguarded and illuminated....now photojournalism is devolving into yet another medium perceived as intending to shock, titillate, sell, distort.

  Fred Ritchin

  Photography, Thinking, Historical

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• People expect me to me a 'shock rocker,' but there's nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Rockers, Can Do

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• When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

  Christopher Booker

  Past, Years, Data

  "The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• In The Lost Message of Jesus I claim that penal substitution is tantamount to 'child abuse - a vengeful Father punishing his Son for an offence he has not even committed.' Though the sheer bluntness of this imagery (not original to me of course) might shock some, in truth, it is only a stark 'unmasking' of the violent, pre-Christian thinking behind such a theology.

  Steve Chalke

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

  Doug Pagitt

  Christian, Jesus, Hearing

  Doug Pagitt (2012). “A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, and Let Down in us All”, p.90, John Wiley & Sons

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• Although no one said so, intuitively I knew they were my celestial welcoming committee. It was as if they had all gathered just outside heaven's gate, waiting for me. The first person I recognized was Joe Kulbeth, my grandfather. He looked exactly as I remembered him, with his shock of white hair. ...as I stared into his face, an ecstatic bliss overwhelmed me. ... I couldn't get past the joy of our reunion. How either of us reached heaven seemed irrelevant.

  Don Piper

  Past, Hair, White

  Don Piper, Cecil Murphey (2015). “90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life”, p.27, Baker Books

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• I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or gratuitous shock value in place of having a heart. For example: movies that combine extremely sadistic violence with humor I find offensive.

  Jesse Michaels

  Hate, Heart, Example

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• I got shocked really bad at a show once. We do this big intro to a cover of the Smiths' "Panic on the Streets of London" and I got a huge shock and went, 'Ohhhh!' We had to stop the show for 15 minutes.

  Pete Yorn

  London, Panic, Minutes

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• South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime there. They were trying to protect Namibia, to protect apartheid, and nobody did much about it; but the Cubans sent forces, and furthermore they sent black soldiers and they defeated a white mercenary army, which not only rescued Angola but it sent a shock throughout the continent-it was a psychic shock-white mercenaries were purported to be invincible, and a black army defeated them and sent them back fleeing into South Africa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Army, Psychics

  "Chomsky on Haiti". Interview with Keane Bhatt, www.counterpunch.org. March 9, 2010.

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• One thing America truly does stand for is a million different ways of living. But while we enjoy the lives we have, we're so privileged. We live in a world that's so far from what the Palestinian children are going through, it's unbelievable. Yet if we dare to get close to that atrocity and name it, it would shock us so badly we couldn't live in our privileged comfort zone.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Children, Names, America

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

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• It was just such a complete shock to turn on the news one day and see someone that you know, someone you have passed in the halls of your high school. It got me thinking, 'Well, what are some novels that are about female sexual psychopaths? I really didn't have many references for that, and I felt like that was a void in transgressive literature that I wanted to fill.'

  Alissa Nutting

  School, Thinking, One Day

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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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. Well, guess what? 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! This brother was a conquistador who came with Ponce de Leon. He was looking for the Fountain of Youth just like the white people were.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Brother, Florida, Names

  "Gates Unlocked!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I enjoyed being what I was in radio, which some thought of as a shock jock although, to this day, I still can't figure out what I've done that's so shocking. As to my favorite interviews, I loved having my mother and father on. I also enjoyed talking to Elmo, who's a puppet. I found T.I.'s trying to be extra-cool very endearing. Tyra Banks was not the diva I expected her to be. I loved talking to her. And Simon Cowell is a really nice guy. Yeah! He's my fave, and he's handsome.

  Wendy Williams

  Mother, Father, Nice

  Source: aalbc.com

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