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The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.
When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.
I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!
When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.
If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context.
The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
Pop shouldn't be a comfortable slipper. It should shock and surprise you and confront your expectations.
What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.
If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.
I think smartphones need to send an electrical shock to a user when they get their your/you're mixed up.
I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan.
To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.
It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.
It would not lessen the shock and concern, but it would be something concrete in addition to the apologies.
I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.
I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.
I feel like I need to improve in every area. That might shock people, but I'm never satisfied with my game.
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.
Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
Getting into a sleep routine before the first week of school will aid in easing the shock of waking up early.
I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.
Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.
In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us.
You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.
Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.
When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
It's no longer possible to find something which will shock other people, because everything has already been done.
It turns out the businessman knows more about how the economy really works than the chattering class. What a shock.
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
I'm not intentionally dirty. It just kind of happens. It's not like I'm a shock comic who's looking to walk people.
I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.