Shock Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• 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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• The same thing I did in 2013 is what I'm trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I'll have another hour of stand-up material where I'll be able to go on the road and tour again.

  Kevin Hart

  People, Trying, Goes On

  "Kevin Hart's Wild 'Ride' [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. January 20, 2014.

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• Carrie was a terrific piece of work. At the end of the movie comes, when Amy Irving kneels down to put the flowers on Carrie's grave, a hand comes up through the grave and seizes her by the arm. The audience went to the roof, totally to the roof. It was just the most amazing reaction. And I thought, 'We have a monster hit on our hands. Brian De Palma has done something new. He's actually created a shock ending that shocks an audience that was ready for a horror film.' And there were several people who did it after that.

  Stephen King

  Flower, Hands, People

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• Great sci-fi has never shied from tackling the Big Questions, though really great sci-fi never forgets to entertain us along the way. Shock and awe applies to art, as well.

  Rick Yancey

  Art, Way, Never Forget

  "5 Most Shocking Moments in Sci-Fi Movies" by Rick Yancey, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.

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• I'm a New Yorker. I'm liberal and open-minded. Things don't really shock me. But I was reading the second-act today and thinking that if you're religious, you could be. But you shouldn't be! You can be extremely religious and have your faith and still be open-minded to art. Because this is art. That's part of the excitement. It literally is "The Jerry Springer Show" on-stage set to beautiful operatic music. That's what's so incredible about it!

  Max von Essen

  Beautiful, Religious, Art

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

  Anna Freud

  Firsts, Madhouses

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• You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

  Simon Van Booy

  Pain, Ache, Happened

  Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.237, Oneworld Publications

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• There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.

  Thomas Paine

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.341

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• The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

  Terry Southern

  Writing, Important, Capacity

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• My friend Ray Comfort has produced a powerful piece of media that leaves a lasting mark on your heart and mind. '180' is 33 minutes of video adrenaline, shock, and hope. As defenders of the unborn and messengers of the Gospel of Life, we need to see this video and share it with as many people as we can.

  Kirk Cameron

  Powerful, Heart, Media

  FaceBook post by Kirk Cameron from Sep 28, 2011

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• If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

  Eleanor Clark

  Weed, Food, Love Life

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• Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Marcel Duchamp, Michel Sanouillet, Paul Matisse, Anne Sanouillet, Paul B. Franklin (2008). “Duchamp du signe, suivi de Notes”

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• The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.45, BookBaby

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• Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

  Andrew Marr

  Laughter, Mind, News

  Andrew Marr (2009). “My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

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• People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Yellow

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• It shocks me when young kids still say, 'I want to do a magazine,'

  Scott Schuman

  Kids, Magazines, Want

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• In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

  Rowan Williams

  Trust, Fog, Hands

  "I don't come to it with a fixed agenda". www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2002.

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• Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld smirking and boasting as they announce their Shock and Awe offensive, we hope he understands why we believe we have been dragged into something we should have been fighting tooth and nail to stop.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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