Shocking Quotes - Page 10

• At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

  Larry Clark

  Real, The End Of The Day, Telling The Truth

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• The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Doe, Lebanon, Territory

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• Star Trek?” I asked her. “Really?” “What?” she demanded, bending unnaturally black eyebrows together. “There are two kinds of people in the universe, Molly,” I said. “Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans. This is shocking.” She sniffed. “This is the post-nerd-closet world, Harry. It’s okay to like both.” “Blasphemy and lies,” I said.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, War, Lying

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.391, Penguin

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• Most people don't like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it's difficult to metabolize. A painting of a bowl of fruit is much easier. It's for the same reason why we don't like going to the doctor. The diagnosis and x-rays are too honest. This is what creates the perception that contemporary art is shocking or suspicious.

  Adamo Macri

  Life, Art, Doctors

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• One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Parent, Reason, Theater

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• We get these really deep and emotional fan letters sometimes that are so heartbreaking or shocking or haunting sometimes that I can kind of relate to them in my own way and connect with our fans in that way.

  Vic Fuentes

  Emotional, Heartbreaking, Fans

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

  James M. Barrie

  Wise, Mother, Children

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.140, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

  Ryan Adams

  Thinking, Ideas, Feel Good

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

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• I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.

  Emily Browning

  Beautiful, Needs, Want

  "'Sleeping Beauty' Star Emily Browning: 'I knew it would be more intense than anything I’ve done before'". Interview with Brian Brooks, www.indiewire.com. November 30, 2011.

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• It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.

  Lea Thompson

  Get Back, Hard, Movie Business

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• Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.

  Elizabeth Vargas

  Girl, Country, Baby

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• I love shocking people.

  Esai Morales

  People

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

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• It is rather shocking to note that opposition leaders, who are representatives of the wananchi (citizens), are themselves rejecting the participation of the wananchi in this major public issue.

  Amani

  Issues, Leader, Citizens

  "Karume gives condition for meeting Seif". The Guardian, May 20, 2008.

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• It's shocking to me that it's easier to buy a gun at Wal-Mart than it is to buy my record.

  Marilyn Manson

  Gun, Records, Easier

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• We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Family Guy, Sake, Offensive

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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• No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Looks, Hats, Know How

  Robert Smith Surtees, John Leech, Hablot Knight Browne (1865). “Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds”, p.38

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• It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.

  Ryan Adams

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wrath, Righteous, Temper

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

  Roger Scruton

  Firsts, Sometimes, Boring

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• Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.

  Rob Brezsny

  Mean, Grace, Mojo

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• I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.

  Annabella Sciorra

  People, Secret, Tvs

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• Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Beautiful, Hands, Imagination

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• I find that the majority of the year, I don't spend acting. I spend it either writing or editing or producing, or putting things together. So it's as shocking as it is tragic. I really enjoy it. It's a valuable skill set. I certainly feel like more of a grownup.

  Charlie Day

  Writing, Skills, Editing

  "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton, and Charlie Day". Interview with Noel Murray, tv.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

  John Waters

  Dirty, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

  Jane Austen

  Laziness, Youth, Sofas

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.518, Wordsworth Editions

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