Shocking Quotes - Page 19

• The brands that can connect with client in a real way will win.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Real, Winning, Marketing

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• Tell people what specific action to take.

  Jay Abraham

  People, Marketing, Action

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• The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

  Lewis Howes

  Marketing, Important, Helpful

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• You want to understand the smallest feature set customers will pay for in the first release.

  Patrick Vlaskovits

  Marketing, Want, Pay

  Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits (2010). “The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany”, p.39, CustDev

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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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• The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.

  Anne Rice

  Morning, School, Gun

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Dec 21, 2012

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• Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Murder, Obscenity

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• Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book.

  Debby Applegate

  Book, Reading, Laughing

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• That Asian guy is really good at kicking. Shocking. Someone is pressing 'A' really fast somewhere.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Guy, Asian

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• This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Sacrifice, Animal

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• Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Past, Worst Enemy, Wish

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.208, Kodansha America

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• The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

  Dennis Lehane

  Loneliness, Warning, Lays

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Prayers For Rain”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  Larry Wall

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

  Christopher Fry

  Real, Mysterious Things, Hands

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• Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

  Nicholson Baker

  Wikipedia, Facts, Incredibles

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Reading, Years

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, Degrees, Ugly

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• I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.

  Hilton Als

  Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

  Joanna Southcott

  Answers, Bears, Satan

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn`t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn`t think of myself as liberated, and I don`t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn`t know any other way to be, or any other way to live.

  Bettie Page

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  FaceBook post by Bettie Page from Aug 26, 2013

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• Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.

  Heather Gudenkauf

  Sleep, Two, Eden

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• Jesus' death was seen by Jesus himself ... as the ultimate means by which God's kingdom was established. The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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• Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.

  Mariah Carey

  Heartbroken, Condolences, Voice

  FaceBook post by Mariah Carey from Feb 12, 2012

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• That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Nfl, Giants, Stories

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