Surprise Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it.

  Tori Amos

  Inspiration, Keys

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A lot interests me - but nothing surprises me particularly.

  Edward Albee

  Interest, Surprise Me

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.49, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• A little ego can be quite entertaining. But [Alessandro Michele is] a very humble, gentle, kind person. And I think that his humanity would probably surprise a lot of people, because he's so confident and bold in the choices that he makes.

  Jared Leto

  Humble, Thinking, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Probably not a surprise that, among the people of Mexico, just 4 percent say that they have a positive opinion of [Donald] Trump. Seventy-five percent say they have a negative opinion.

  Steve Kornacki

  People, Negative, Mexico

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• To conclude, the tragedy of March 25 [1969] caught me by surprise. Yahya Khan fooled even me.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Tragedy, March, Caught

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't surprise us.

  Paul Kengor

  Inspiration, President, Gerald Ford

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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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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• It's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.

  Peter Buffett

  Moving, Hard Work, Men

  Source: www.psychologytoday.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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• A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush has internalized the founders' belief that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with a certain inherent yearning for freedom. In turn, Bush has applied this to his vision for the Middle East, believing that a democratic transformation in that region is possible, given that inherent desire for liberty within all hearts, including the hearts of Arab Muslims. People disagree with that, which is fine, but that's the Bush vision.

  Paul Kengor

  Believe, Heart, Eight

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• [Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.

  Brent Spiner

  Sweet, Jobs, Independence

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes I will give some very vague directions to the designer that I'm working with on a particular project and they'll come back and surprise me with something that really shows a lot of their own 'hand' in it. Other times I'll have a really clear idea about how I want it done and I'll draw it out pretty precisely and say 'make it look exactly like this' and it will be something where it looks like I can say it was 'fully my design'. The work can also range between the two.

  Michael Bierut

  Hands, Ideas, Two

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, Book, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

  Megan Chance

  Real, Book, Character

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• 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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• It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons. What is clear to me, therefore, is that while the tragedy of war grinds on, the contemporary aesthetics of the tragedy seem not only confused but, in some way, suspicious.

  Paul Virilio

  Confused, War, Skeletons

  Source: ctheory.net

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• To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily.

  George Carlin

  Marijuana, Use, Tapering

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.

  Michael Kenna

  Needs, Outcomes, Sometimes

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come at the end that I hadn't really planned or planted.

  George Saunders

  Book, Feelings, Ends

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's fun to deal with the terror and the huge highs and lows of things. We're still getting massive surprises, every time you have any kind of Twilight-related event or anything.

  Robert Pattinson

  Fun, Twilight, Events

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The truth is that business is simple: create great products, merchandise them at the point of sale, continuously innovate and surprise, reward and achieve a position of loyalty with your front line, and seek new truth from the market. Deliver the goods at a competitive cost. Price to earn a decent but not competitively inviting return. Not much else matters.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Loyalty, Simple, Lines

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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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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• 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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