Shocking Quotes
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If you look at these bands like The Beatles, they did something that was new for that time, whether it was shocking or just a new direction that they were going.
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die – that's that.
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One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.
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Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' – I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'
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Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking.
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It's very shocking for me to see pictures from my win here in 2008. I aged.
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When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking. Or mind-boggling. I'll be trying to figure it out, but once I've got it figured out I'll be like, I know this; I know where this came from. I think art is most interesting when the intention is not clear.
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I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.
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Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool.
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Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.
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I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.
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You've pulled off some shocking upsets in the past, but only a fool would bet on you this time. So I will.
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Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.
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The Internet makes money for you when you build something that is real and when it matters to people!
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All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror.
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I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.
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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.
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If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
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I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.
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Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.
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I'm not easily frazzled. I don't see anything out here that is so shocking that we can't deal with. I see some opportunities behind all this.
