Shocked Quotes - Page 3

• I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right' and 'The Drew Carey Show,' then you might be a little bit shocked. I'm a little dirty and a little opinionated but all in fun.

  Drew Carey

  Fun, Dirty, Thinking

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• When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Ensemble, Comedy, Talent

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

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• Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dad, Home, Alzheimer's

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

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• People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.

  Alice Cooper

  Thinking, People, Female

  Interview with Mike Quigley, www.mjq.net. September 1969.

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• I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, Ideas, White

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• To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

  Amy Chua

  Parent, Asian, Honest

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• Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Offended You, Views, Giving

  "The Nastiest Things Ever Said about Democrats". Book by Martin Higgins, p. 93, 2006.

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• If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspiration, Understanding, Quantum Physics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

  Russell Baker

  War, People, Culture

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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  W. H. Auden

  Eye, Hands, Bored

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• It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

  Kirk Hammett

  Guitar, Fans, Solo

  "Extended Q&A: Kirk Hammett of Metallica". Interview with Brandy McDonnell, newsok.com. November 18, 2008.

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• I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Home, Sleep, Nightlife

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• The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.

  Julio Cortazar

  Order, Rupture, Surprise

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• The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

  Tiger Woods

  People, Would Be, Gains

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• When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

  Reba McEntire

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Reba McEntire, Tom Carter (2015). “REBA: MY STORY”, p.3, Bantam

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• I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

  Nicki Minaj

  Writing, Thinking, Idols

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• I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

  Christian Louboutin

  Years, People, Want

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• I've had so many people tell me that they are shocked that AM radio still even exists with all the different listening options.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Listening, Different

  "Why Technology Didn’t Kill the Radio Star". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mother, School, Doctors

  "Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident". Book by Eoin Colfer, 2002.

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• I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Gun, Government, Trying

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.37, Macmillan

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• The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness, and yet it seemed likely enough that the woman was familiar with the failing and need not be shocked by it. He looked at her. Perhaps it was the rich lashes of the downcast eyes that made her face seem warm and sensuous. She shook her head very slightly, and again a faint blush spread over her face.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Eye, Needs, Faces

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.21, Vintage

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• I've taken care of it," I said My father looked at me, shocked. Then I realized "taken care of" had a very specific meaning in his line of work. "No, no, I mean he's gone.

  Gordon Korman

  Father, Taken, Mean

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• I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

  Jack Kemp

  Sound, Republican, Economic

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• To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Mean, Ideas, Moral

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• Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Zuckerberg, Ongoing, World

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