Shocking Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool.

  Morgan Saylor

  Sex, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

  George Will

  America, Done, Illegal

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Character, Thinking, Should Have

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Honduras has become a murder capital of the world; there's horrible atrocities, infanticide, murder of women is way up, and people are fleeing in desperation. They come to the border, and we put them in trucks and send them back to Mexico to die. And here people are scared of illegal immigrants - that's what we're doing. It's pretty shocking.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Atrocities, Fleeing

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• [Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's not a shocker, but then it is. I guess so because I'm in it, so it's shocking that it's still on TV. People are still talking about it. Hey, I'm still getting royalty checks from it. It's amazing to me and I hope it continues forever.

  Quindon Tarver

  Talking, People, Forever

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I think a lot of people have had their eyes open, shocked that the team they thought they were on didn't exist, and that the games were not being played to win. I guess it's shocking to a lot of people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Team, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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 still have so much gratitude for being part of something so great that is still around 20 years later, played in school and still getting the recognition that it gets. It is shocking, but then like I said, it's timeless so it isn't.

  Quindon Tarver

  Gratitude, School, Years

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

  Mitch Albom

  Teacher, Cities, Priorities

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

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• There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Copying, Way

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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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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• Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.

  Bill Maher

  Animal, Whales, Play

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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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• Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them.

  George Carlin

  Wall, Patriotic, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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