Shocked Quotes - Page 7

• If you've been paying attention to politics for the last, you know, 30 years, it would not have shocked you, but what was amazing was that there it was, you know, in irrefutable colors, you know, there on paper, or there on your computer screen.

  Jill Stein

  Color, Years, Attention

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• I'm shocked at how much I'm into Christmas pillows. There's cheesiness, obviously, but then there's really cute ones that are metallic that say "Ho Ho Ho" or "Merry" or cute vintage needlepoint ones.

  Emily Henderson

  Cute, Vintage, Metallic

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as you might believe them to be.

  Scott McClanahan

  Believe, Things In Life, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car accident, and everything moves slowly, you can be shocked into the present. The past and the future disappear.

  Russell Simmons

  Beautiful, Moving, Book

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

  David Hockney

  Simple

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.

  Rick Remender

  Independent, Ebay, Oakland

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back to the 19th century. I was shocked to find what I would describe as far more utopian ideas in the 19th century than in the 20th century. Not only were the ideas so extreme, but surprising people were adopting them.

  Christine Jennings

  Ideas, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I remember, the first time I saw a [Andrei] Tarkovsky film, I was shocked by it. I didn't know what to do. I was fascinated, because suddenly I realized that film could have so many more layers to it than what I had imagined before. Then others, like Kurosawa and Fellini, were like a new discovery for me, another country.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Country, Discovery, Layers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was about 17 or 18 when I first started performing in public. I had a teacher when I was a freshman in college and she came up to me afterwards and said she had been crying while I had been singing, and it really shocked me.

  Antony Hegarty

  Teacher, College, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was shocked to find out how many deaths occurred due to fires across the country and how simply they could've been avoided. Knowing how to get out of our homes is important, especially in less than 2 minutes.

  Frankie J. Grande

  Country, Home, Knowing

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• One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down from my column at "Newsweek" because I wanted to make room for newer, fresh voices out there, I discovered that in the year I was born, 1952, the average life expectancy of an American was 68. I was shocked by that figure and every time I mention it I hear a gasp from somebody in the crowd. Now, of course, we're more or less at 80, so that means that we've gotten 12 additional years.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Mean, Average

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love pork. I love a good BLT. I know that sounds horrible but I do. I'm a total foodie. I love cooking and I love traveling and I love finding new places to eat and new cuisines to eat. Don't be shocked if you see me munching down on a baby back rib.

  Bob Bergen

  Baby, Cooking, Pork

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings.

  Nina Nastasia

  Singers, Songwriters

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I grew up in a house where there were no taboos, so it came originally from a pretty innocent place, where I was shocked at the things that shocked people.

  Sarah Silverman

  People, House, Innocent

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• There's no question to my mind and I think no question to any objective observer's mind that the DNC was supporting Hillary Clinton and was at opposition to our campaign. So I'm not quite shocked by this. And that is why many, many months ago I made it clear that I thought Debbie Wasserman Schultz should resign, should step down.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Mind, Months

  "Bernie Sanders Supporters Rally Amid Controversy Over DNC's Role". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 24, 2016.

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• Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, "Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll do the performance just for the camera." He set up everything and I told him to go outside and smoke a cigarette. Come back when I finish. Don't touch the camera. This was the way how I've done most everything after that.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cameras, Done, Back When

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact that I was filming Patti [Smith].

  Steven Sebring

  Band, London, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was pretty shocked [having concert in the Madison Square Garden]. It could have gone either way. But I think it's the right time. Nobody does what we do with taking the visuals and making it a complete rock 'n' roll show with the really good songs. Nobody's done that in a long time.

  Vince Neil

  Song, Garden, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I was really shocked that Madison Square Garden sold out in a day. It was very amazing. But the reason we got back together is because the fans wanted us to get back together.

  Vince Neil

  Garden, Squares, Together

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If you're an editor at TIME magazine or writer at TIME magazine and you are shocked to look at real documented research that says men and women are different - what in the world did you believe beforehand?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Real, Believe, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The modern era of feminism is how you track that at its beginning. It manifested itself in crazy ways. Parents would try raising their daughters in blue rooms with GI Joe and try raising their sons in pink rooms with Barbie to see what would happen, and they were shocked.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Daughter, Crazy, Son

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

  Grace Jones

  Moving, Years, Snow

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to hide. I felt burdened by the loneliness of my interior life. I wanted some container that I could empty myself into, some ear that would never be shocked, even if it offered me some kind of penance.

  Melissa Febos

  Loneliness, Names, Ears

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For a long time, people assumed I was gay, so when I got married the press were all a bit shocked and made a big deal of it - and ditto when I had children. I felt very much under the microscope with paps outside the house taking pictures of me getting the baby out of the car, it was excruciating. I remember getting her out of the car seat and thinking 'oh God I'm going to drop her and they're going to take a picture'. I was so nervous. Those sorts of things are really hard. 

  Jo Brand

  Baby, Children, Gay

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I wouldn't be surprised or shocked if, 10 years from now or 20 years from now, Muslims or Christians or non-Jews will be scared to reveal their religion, and they will be walking without - just, you know, hiding their religion. And that's where Israel is heading to.

  Tamer Nafar

  Christian, Israel, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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