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• There is a strong tendency to get used to and accept very bad things that would be shocking if seen with fresh eyes.

  Ray Dalio

  Strong, Eye, Would Be

  "Ray Dalio eclipses George Soros as most successful fund manager" by Simon Goodley, www.theguardian.com. March 09, 2012.

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• I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

  Jim Dale

  Clever, Laughing, Way

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

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• I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.

  Joan Collins

  Reading, School, Thinking

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• How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.

  Steve Carell

  Beautiful, People, Kind

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• Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first Vogue cover. It was French Vogue - I think in ’87 or ’88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, "Oh, no. We’ve never had that before."

  Naomi Campbell

  Thinking, Black, Firsts

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from May 09, 2016

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  Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

  Rob Bell

  Thinking, Goal, Noble

  "The Good News Is Better Than That: Reflections On Hell, Salvation and the Power of Love" by Rob Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2011.

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• I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Insolent

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• I'm a working-class person, working with class.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Class, Working Class, Persons

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• The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Brain, Body

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• I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Way, Persons, Ifs

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• One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Athlete, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sherlock Holmes: The Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

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• "If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

  Coleman Hawkins

  Success, Music, Fitness

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• The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Swings, Ideas

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• If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Dance, Way, Nutcrackers

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• There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

  Edmund Burke

  Disappointment, Design, Judgement

  "The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes", Vol. IX, Boston: Little, Brown, 1839.

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• There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

  Michael Phelps

  Girl, Sports, Morning

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• There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Ideas, Justice

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• When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

  Aimee Mullins

  Attitude, Men, Mad

  "US Paralympics TV coverage disappointing, says chef de mission" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2012.

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• The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Leadership, Business

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Justify, Being Funny, Hard

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• What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

  Laura Linney

  Fall, Iraq, People

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• Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Vanity, Things In Life

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2009.

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• I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me about the shocking grammar to be found online - but I was talking about fundamentals: quite simply, you can't use the net unless you can read.

  Margaret Atwood

  Talking, Simply You, People

  "Margaret Atwood: why Wattpad works" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2012.

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