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Tag Name "Shock" (553)

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Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.
Nicolas Cage
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Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
Ron Fournier
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Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.
Ben Kingsley
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Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.
Elton John
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The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.
Tim Lebbon
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If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.
Eleanor Clark
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I stand by everything I said. I absolutely can defend my material, and I take issue with people who say, It's just shock value. It's not even funny. I disagree. There's different ways to be funny and to be a comedian.
David Cross
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Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.
Paul Virilio
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Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.
Mira Grant
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Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.
Timothy Geithner
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I’m a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock? Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.129
Stephenie Meyer
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The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.
David Harsanyi
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It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
Paula Marantz Cohen
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The natural tendency of the state is inflation. This statement will shock those accustomed to viewing the state as a committee of the whole nation ardently dispensing the general welfare, but I think it nonetheless true.
Murray Rothbard
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Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.
Tom Conti
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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
Sue Monk Kidd
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I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other language there is a word for 'the world is terribly wrong.' That feeling of stun and unbelief and abandonment and shock and horror and distress.
David Levithan
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I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.
Charles Foster Johnson
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I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
Peter Arnett
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Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same the antifragile gets better.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief there is anger there is fear but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity there is courage there is a surging of the human spirit.
Tony Blair
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When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.
Susan Minot
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Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror. I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, History suggests, not until they are made to.
David Mitchell
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