Surprise Quotes - Page 7

• I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Conservative, Politician, Accustomed

  Source: progressive.org

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• Angels emerge from the presence of God and worship of God, are sent on mission for our redemption, so it doesn't surprise me to read in the Bible of angels leading us into the presence of God in worship.

  Scot McKnight

  Angel, Redemption, Worship

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

  Lena Dunham

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Powerful, Believe, Character

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Recently it's become much to my surprise, something that does happen. For example, I used to get almost all of my stories, and it's probably still true, from newspapers. Primarily from The New York Times. No one ever really thinks of The New York Times as a tabloid newspaper and it isn't a tabloid newspaper. But there is a tabloid newspaper within The New York Times very, very often.

  Errol Morris

  New York, Thinking, Example

  Source: collider.com

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• As far as Bernie Sanders is concerned, he is a decent, honest person, and I supported him. What he means by socialism is New Deal Liberalism. In fact, his actual policies would not have been a great surprise to General Eisenhower. The fact that this is called a "political revolution" is a sign of how far to the right the political spectrum has shifted, mainly in the last 30 years since the neoliberal programs began to be instituted. What he was calling for was a restoration of something like New Deal Liberalism, which is a very good thing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Political Revolution, Years

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the element of surprise remains with the protesters. We need to preserve the element of an intellectual ambush and a physical manifestation that takes the government and the police by surprise. It has to keep re-imagining itself, because holding territory may not be something the movement will be allowed to do in a state as powerful and violent as the United States.

  Arundhati Roy

  Powerful, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.

  Matt Hardy

  Fun, Wrestling, People

  Source: www.rohwrestling.com

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• I was sort of retired, you could say. During that process, I was recording here and there. I put out several songs expressing myself to the fans and letting them know of my whereabouts and what I was doing. I gave them insight into my situation. To my surprise, the fans have been very supporting and understanding.

  Tony Sunshine

  Song, Understanding, Here And There

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• My biggest surprise when I became a mom was how I had so much love inside me to give to someone.

  Alyssa Milano

  Mom, Giving, Much Love

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at times that he had been chosen for this path, but he also understood that he was chosen for this path. He had several moments of acute doubt as to if he was up for the task - when people were injured in the protests he took it very personally, let alone when they were killed.

  David Oyelowo

  Kings, People, Leader

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• You lose your sense of wonder the more you learn, right? When you go to film school and learn about moviemaking, you go to see movies and then only see where the lights are, where the cuts are, watching it from a technical basis, nodding your head, "Oh, that was good." The feeling of surprise, the feeling of being transported is further away.

  David Copperfield

  School, Cutting, Light

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

  Chaz Bufe

  Jesus, Common, Christ

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• What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.

  Damian Kulash

  Stuff, Mystery, Wonder

  "Damian Kulash of OK Go: On Creativity, Design, and Activism". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.

  Robert Barry

  Challenges, My Own, Finished

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect, and people who like the death penalty on grounds of retribution tend to think it has deterrent effects. They like that, and they believe that. I think with climate change we're seeing very much the same thing where those who deny climate change, they don't like that, and they don't believe it.

  Cass Sunstein

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• I think Donald Trump is going to surprise a lot of people.

  Rick Santorum

  Thinking, People, Trump

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.

  Todd Solondz

  World, Littles, Way

  "'Wiener-Dog': Director Todd Solondz Explains Why It Took a Few Years to Make This Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2016.

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• I think it took us all by surprise. I mean, I knew that people in New Zealand would like [Hunt for the Wilderpeople], but no one really anticipated how much they would embrace it as it is. And it's playing widely in Australia now; they're running it as well. It's going to be interesting to see how it does it in the States, but I think if Sundance was any indication, I imagine it could do well.

  Sam Neill

  Running, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I think there's almost an expectation that it should be Theresa [May] and Boris [Johnson]. I think they'd be real surprise if it ended up with someone else.

  Nigel Evans

  Real, Thinking, Expectations

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• Indeed, much to my parents' surprise, the first word I spoke in this lifetime was "light." Prior to uttering its name, however, I was already searching for light - for my source. Yet despite my preternatural kinship with that spark that lights this and all worlds, for the first two or three decades of my life, I resisted it.

  Rod Stryker

  Light, Names, Two

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• I became known for surprising audiences. Except now, if I surprise them every time, they expect that.

  Sarah Silverman

  Audience, Surprising, Known

  "Sarah Silverman walks the blurry lines of sarcasm". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.montereyherald.com. March 29, 2011.

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• I would say that the emotional content of the film [Swiss Army Man] took me by surprise, and sometimes I would probably want to capture the unique tone of it.

  Paul Dano

  Army, Emotional, Unique

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When the doors to television were opened to me, that was quite a surprise. It's been such a gift that there was so much TV and independent film happening in New York that I could be a part of. There was something to satiate my desire to be artistic and creative, especially when it wasn't in the way I originally thought it was going to be.

  Aja Naomi King

  New York, Independent, Doors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Holiday, Window, Crew

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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