Shocking Quotes - Page 9

• There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

  Roger Vadim

  Sensual, Provocative, Natural

  The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. 1988.

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• If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures.

  Milan Kundera

  People, Doubt, World

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• Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

  Michael Arrington

  Writing, Marketing, Stuff

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• He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Years, Littles

  "Drama Team Handbook". Book by Alison Siewert, 2003.

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• My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Ambition, Jeans, Size

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• The Drop's unpredictability is organic rather than sensationalistic. The movie doesn't pull surprises out of thin air for the sole purpose of shocking an audience - it lets them develop naturally.

  James Berardinelli

  Air, Purpose, Surprise

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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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• You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Competition, Marketing, Needs

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• In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.

  Cole Porter

  Night, White, Mad

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• The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the word 'rich' means having an abundance of good or living a fuller, more satisfying life. Indeed, you are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health, happiness and plenty in your world. There are honorable methods that can carry you quickly toward that goal. It is easier to accomplish than you may now think. That, too, is the shocking truth about prosperity.

  Catherine Ponder

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works.  To the age-old question, ‘What shall I do to be saved?’ the confessional answer is shocking: ‘Nothing!  Just be still; shut up and listen for once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son!  Listen and believe!’

  Gerhard

  Believe, Son, Age

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• Since there is an assumption that a lot of models ‘starve themselves’ to stay thin, I always find it both funny and shocking when people ask me if I ‘overeat’ or am ‘fed better’ on photo shoots to help me stay a ‘larger size.’ While I may be a total foodie and enjoy cooking, I simply eat when I’m hungry and finish just before I’m full.

  Robyn Lawley

  People, Cooking, May

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• It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

  John Scott

  Loyalty, Unique, Hype

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• Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to him minutes before, stood in his presence on Air Force One.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Air, President, Identity

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• I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Worry, Political, Correctness

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.

  Derek Sivers

  Dream, Marketing, Helpful

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.8, Penguin

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• We will do anything to get away from our own pain. We will change our lives, rip people out, swallow a bottle of life-ending pills. When we hurt more than we can bear, when our lives get that dark, it's shocking what we will do to protect ourselves.

  Pamela Ribon

  Hurt, Pain, Rip

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• The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

  Peter Drucker

  Marketing, Helpful, Selling

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.91, Routledge

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• It was quite instant that he wanted Harry's approval. Did you notice that? And the children sort of rescued him this time. It's a great turnabout. That's what happens as your children get older. They do things for you, and it's quite shocking when they do.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Children, Appreciate, Approval

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

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• Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

  Alexander Pope

  Animal, Blood, Kitchen

  "The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating". Book by Howard Williams, p. 132, archive.org. 1883.

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• As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Loss, Cop, Shows

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• I enjoyed being what I was in radio, which some thought of as a shock jock although, to this day, I still can't figure out what I've done that's so shocking. As to my favorite interviews, I loved having my mother and father on. I also enjoyed talking to Elmo, who's a puppet. I found T.I.'s trying to be extra-cool very endearing. Tyra Banks was not the diva I expected her to be. I loved talking to her. And Simon Cowell is a really nice guy. Yeah! He's my fave, and he's handsome.

  Wendy Williams

  Mother, Father, Nice

  Source: aalbc.com

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• My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

  Peter Webber

  Drama, Men, Males

  "Girl with a Pearl Earring". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.

  Tobin Bell

  Saws, Moments, Get Up

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• If you go out to some of the big cities in California, and you look at some of the monopoly situations out there, the thing is just shocking. And the tendency, and I think it's bound to be, unless it is carefully combated by those who are managing the papers, the tendency of a monopoly situation is bound to be to damp everything down to a common level.

  Walter Millis

  Thinking, Cities, California

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