Shocking Quotes - Page 15

• My mom and I have always been very close since she did raise me as like a single mom. My friends and everyone I know are like, 'Wow, you guys really have a really good relationship.' She's with me a lot of the time, so people find that kind of shocking.

  Tiffany Trump

  Mom, People, Good Relationship

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. It was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment.

  Edward Said

  Military, Heart, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I believe that couture is not about shocking.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Believe, I Believe, Couture

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• If you live in a free market and a free society, shouldn't you have the right to know what you're buying? It's shocking that we don't and it's shocking how much is kept from us.

  Robert Kenner

  Buying, Free Market, Free Society

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Kindness, Two, People

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.

  David Papineau

  Philosophy, Simple, Numbers

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• The camera can capture thought in a way that's quite surprising and shocking. You can become very simple and minimal in your work and communicate a lot with just a finger or an eyebrow, or a look, or a glance.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Simple, Eyebrows, Way

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• With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant.

  Rosanne Cash

  Grief, Tragedy, Unbearable

  Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.108, Penguin

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• Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Knives, Mad, Wife

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1865). “Verses and Translations”, p.61

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• I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Want, Way

  Source: southpawfilmworks.net

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• When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

  Nora Ephron

  Sports, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Giving, Mind, Despair

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• For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, 'Whoa!' It's always been my forte.

  Donnie Yen

  Movement, Moments, Feels

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• Children do not see themselves as shocking or surprising and do not want other people to do so.

  Elizabeth Ferrars

  Children, People, Want

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• there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.

  Josephine Pinckney

  Thinking, Inanimate Objects, Natural

  Josephine Pinckney (1948). “Great Mischief”, New York : Viking Press

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• Life seems somehow less shocking, painful, and lonely - and more hopeful, agreeable, and beautiful - when our experiences are confirmed by those of others. Although each of us is unique, there are familiar responses and doubts and joys that let us know we have kin. We are not, after all, too strange to live.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Family, Friends, Beautiful

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• Even Gone With the Wind had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.

  Karin Slaughter

  Wind, Gone, Cold

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• I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Economics, Theory, Used

  "Jeremy Grantham on how to feed the world and why he invests in oil". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2013.

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• I'm very surprised at Carol didn't get a best picture. Todd Haynes is an Academy darling, his period pieces are nothing short of brilliant, and they hold up. And I definitely feel like Carol speaks to, even though it's set in the past, it speaks to themes we're dealing with in life right now. It's really really shocking that it didn't get it.

  Bun B

  Past, Pieces, Brilliant

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• Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it (9/11 event] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people.

  Edward Said

  People, Desire, Events

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Book, Remember, Surprise

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.

  Jimenez Lai

  Practice, Focus, Students

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, Reform, Indifference

  Aldous Huxley (1953). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

  Stendhal

  Book, Ignorance, Thinking

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