Shocking Quotes - Page 7

• It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George Bush is doing a great job.' We'd clear out the room. I used to love it.

  Trey Parker

  Jobs, Party, Thinking

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• That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of radical constructivism - is that the only thing we can ever know about the real reality (if it even exists) is what it is not. It is only with the collapse of our constructions of reality that we first discover that the world is not the way we imagine.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Real, People, Way

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• I had been conscious a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [Secretary Of War Stimson] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at this very moment, seeking a way to surrender with a minimum loss of 'face.'

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Country, War, Loss

  "Mandate for Change: The White House Years, 1953-1956". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, pp. 312-313, 1963.

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• Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all time in film. I don’t think anything had even seen anything quite like it. The photography was also unlike anything we’d seen. The odd coldness of the filmmaker towards the character reflects his own egomania and power, and yet a powerful empathy for all of them--it’s very interesting. It still holds up, and it’s still shocking. It takes storytelling and throws it up in the air.

  Martin Scorsese

  Photography, Powerful, Character

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• We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

  Nikki Reed

  World

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• I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

  Terry Bradshaw

  People, Lucky, Looks

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• You have to understand that nothing appeals to everybody.

  Gene Simmons

  Marketing, Helpful, Appeals

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• Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

  David Meerman Scott

  Thinking, Media, Marketing

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• Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  People, Asking, Strange

  "Daniel Radcliffe: Everyone Needs to Chill Out about My Gay Sex Scene". Interview with Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. January 20, 2013.

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• If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take the Gospels seriously, how can we not see industrial warfare - with its inevitable massacre of innocents - as a most shocking perversion? By the standard of all scriptures, neglect of the poor, of widows and orphans, of the sick, the homeless, the insane, is an abominable perversion.

  Wendell Berry

  Widows And Orphans, Sick, Insane

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• A third of summer sea ice in the Arctic is gone, the oceans are 30 percent more acidic, and since warm air holds more water vapor than cold, the atmosphere over the oceans is a shocking five percent wetter, loading the dice for devastating floods.

  Bill McKibben

  Summer, Ocean, Air

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Pain, Bears

  On Photography "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly" (1977)

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• No one ever succeeds without the help of others.

  Jay Abraham

  Design, Marketing, Succeed

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012

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• At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Fashion, Believe

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• A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

  Margery Allingham

  Giving, Modern, Shock

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• Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Love You, Parent, Marketing

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• It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, Religious, People

  John R. Rice (1939). “Religious But Lost”, p.18, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sex, Men, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.156, A&C Black

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• You wan't to invent new ideas, not new rules.

  Dan Heath

  Ideas, Marketing, Helpful

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• Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.

  Brian Solis

  Empathy, Marketing, Engagement

  FaceBook post by Brian Solis from Dec 27, 2014

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• [About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.

  Carl Safina

  Spring, Reading, Science

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• The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.

  Jane Heller

  Character, Giving, Energy

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• In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa’s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada’s two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. You’re going to want to read this.

  Terry Fallis

  Powerful, Real, Two

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• If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

  Michael Treanor

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

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• Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

  Carly Fiorina

  Business, Design, Marketing

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