Shocking Quotes - Page 18

• Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

  Miranda Otto

  Media, Juggernaut, Kind

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• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn’t really scare me. I’d say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don’t know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  Oren Peli

  Wall, Skins, Scare

  "'Paranormal Activity's' Oren Peli on Scares, Spielberg and 'The River's' Pricey Pilot (Q&A)". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 2, 2012.

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• And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.

  Busy Philipps

  Perfect, Language, My Favorite

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

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• Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

  Charlie Simpson

  Moments, States, Pops

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• To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.

  Edward Norton

  School, Yale, Practice

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Like journalists. The police have an extremely sick sense of humor, very guarded, very private, very male, which they need to survive on an everyday level. I don't think anyone has ever managed to tap that on the screen - it would actually be too shocking.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Sick, Police

  "New Again: Helen Mirren". Interview with James Saynor, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 18, 2015.

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• I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Thinking, Yesterday

  Source: therumpus.net

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• writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself cry, laugh - I like to give myself an experience. I see a lot of writing out there that's very safe. But if you're not scaring yourself, why would you think that you'd be scaring anybody else? If you're not coming to a revelation about your place in the universe, why would you think anyone else would?

  Kate Braverman

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• I don't think we are the same, women and men. We're different. But I don't think we are less than men. There are more women than men in the world - ask any single woman! So, it is shocking that men are in more positions of power.

  Salma Hayek

  Men, Thinking, Position Of Power

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• Speaker, with mixed emotions we mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish genocide of the Armenian people. In taking notice of the shocking events in 1915, we observe this anniversary with sorrow in recalling the massacres of Armenians and with pride in saluting those brave patriots who survived to fight on the side of freedom during World War I.

  Gerald R. Ford

  War, Fighting, Pride

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• If you paint a building shocking pink, that has no scale, it is just a huge mistake, but it's not in the scale of the city to have things like that. You know. So, not only because it's not appropriate, not only because it's offensive to the environment, I mean but among them also because that quantity of that color in the urban scale, is out of scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Mistake, Mean, Color

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In my life, I don't wear makeup, I don't care about any of the trappings of the "feminine," or how I look in photographs. To me, it's irrelevant, which I think is really shocking to people in the industry that I'm in, because it's like, "You should always look good", but I honestly don't care. It's not important to me.

  Margaret Cho

  Makeup, Thinking, People

  "Margaret Cho Is Here, Queer, And Taking Questions About Anything". Interview with Ariane Lange, www.buzzfeed.com. January 21, 2015.

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• I had a brother who died early on - he was 23 when I was 19. And, boy, I certainly didn't expect that. That was utterly shocking.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Brother, Boys, Died

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I mean, it to me shocking that this can happen in 2008, but fortunately, you had a governor who was sensitive enough to this outrage that he pointed it out to the nation, and is trying to do something about it.

  Eleanor Smeal

  New York, Mean, Squares

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• ISIS is a terrorist entity whose barbarities have been condemned by all those who value our common humanity. In the current political climate, when hate crimes are rising and political rhetoric is increasingly divisive, this is all the more shocking.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Hate, Isis, Common Humanity

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

  Guido Palau

  People, Challenges, Surprise

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Any idea is only as valuable as its ability to solve a problem.

  Sally Hogshead

  Business, Ideas, Marketing

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• Messages that fail to fascinate will become irrelevant.

  Sally Hogshead

  Marketing, Messages, Helpful

  Sally Hogshead (2010). “Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! - shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you're about to paddle out to sea.

  Brandon Boyd

  Morning, Fall, Sea

  "Interview with Incubus Frontman Brandon Boyd". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and relevant, especially [William] Burroughs.

  Yony Leyser

  Sales Person, Ginsberg, Pops

  Source: www.outsideleft.com

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• It's about using the right tools, with the right triggers, within a proper marketing framework

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Marketing, Tools, Helpful

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• People can't relate to someone who only talks about their successes.

  Jeremy Schoemaker

  People, Marketing, Helpful

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• If you don't understand people, you don't understand business.

  Simon Sinek

  People, Marketing, Helpful

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

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• I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

  Duke of Wellington

  Life, Saws, Hats

  On seeing the first Reformed Parliament, in Sir William Fraser 'Words on Wellington' (1889) p. 12

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• [Childbirth] is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. It's like an 'Alien' movie. I started crying, it was so emotional ... I was there in the room but I wasn't planning on doing much. But then I see this blue pinhead come out and I think I said to the nurse, 'What the hell is that?' And then it turns into this round red thing in seconds. It's just shocking.

  Tim Burton

  Emotional, Thinking, Blue

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