Surprise Quotes - Page 9

• Twitter has been a pleasant surprise for me. I never imagined that anyone would be interested in what I have to say! It's been fun hearing from fans around the world. Hearing how much the fans still enjoy Aliens, and what my character has meant to them has been awesome. I enjoy chatting and replying when I can.

  Carrie Henn

  Fun, Character, World

  Source: dailydead.com

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• There's an old line that goes, the truck you see 400 yards down the road is not the truck that hits you. When we see these problems coming, they usually get defused. Brexit may have been a surprise, but we recognized it as something that could possibly happen.

  John Manley

  Problem, Truck

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• In U.S. elections, the term "October surprise" has come to mean an event in the closing weeks or days of a presidential campaign that could affect or even alter the outcome.

  Alison Stewart

  Mean, Presidential, October

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Over past period, we have handled relations with China very carefully. We do not take provocative measures, we make sure that there are no surprises, and we hope that through channels of communication, we can gradually build up trust.

  Tsai Ing-wen

  Communication, Past, Provocative

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Jews believed they were the nation God had chosen among all the nations. And they were. But that did not give them immunity to God's judgment. Like the nations, they too would feel God's wrath if they refused to live in God's ways. Furthermore, God could deal with other nations in mercy as well as judgment. Jeremiah was full of surprises, as against the popular religious assumptions of his day. That's perhaps why some people, when they encountered Jesus, thought he was very like Jeremiah. He turned things upside down.

  Christopher J. H. Wright

  Religious, Jesus, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• There should be no surprise that forgotten America, no matter their ethnicity, because we see that Mr. Trump was able to get Hispanic voters, African American voters. Oh my God, the majority of, of, of the women voters that he was able to amass, even though he was painted as the other, my party, the Democratic party, did not listen to the voices of the forgotten America.

  Nina Turner

  Party, African American, Forgotten

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

  Matthew Bourne

  Goodnight, Good Night, Thinking

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• It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

  Julie Burchill

  Acting, World, Fantasy

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• It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home.

  Nicolas Cage

  Book, Home, School

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• Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

  Eric Cantona

  Careers, Goalkeepers, Firsts

  "The Gospel of Eric Cantona". Interview with David Hirshey, www.espn.com. February 18, 2011.

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• I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Thinking, Done, Records

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• I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

  Graydon Carter

  Thinking, Want, Trouble

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• It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.

  Graydon Carter

  Bullying, Ignorance, Rocks

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• I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

  Lee Child

  Writing, Secret, Knows

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• Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

  Margaret Cho

  Birthday, Party, Would Be

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• One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

  Jean Cocteau

  Dream, Regret, Cutting

  "La Difficulté d'Etre ('The Difficulty of Being')". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1947.

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• The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Ideas, Movement

  "Interview With Gail Collins: How Texas Hijacked the American Agenda". Interview with Martha Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

  Mason Cooley

  Mother, Hatred, Familiar

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• Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

  Claire Danes

  Actors, Want, Kind

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

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• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  Larry David

  Wells, Involved

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• Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.

  Mos Def

  Reflection, Jamaica, Two

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• I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Regret, Offering, Actors

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• Whatever precautions you take so the photograph will look like this or that, there comes a moment when the photograph surprises you. It is the other's gaze that wins out and decides.

  Jacques Derrida

  Winning, Looks, Moments

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• I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

  Rita Dove

  Surprise Me, Happened

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• Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

  Minnie Driver

  Hollywood, Way, Actresses

  "'I dropped down to 7st and cried a lot': Minnie Driver on how Hollywood fame made her miserable". Stylist Magazine, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 8, 2012.

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