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«Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.»
Author: Donn Moomaw
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accomplished, admired, celebrities, modeled, models, Model I, Model T, particularly, role, shocked, Some of
«I was shocked and angry with the startling suggestion that I should send from my land, my realm, the woman I intended to marry.»
«The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.»
«I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.»
«Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.»
«Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.»
«To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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aesthetic, although, civilized, potentially, preferences, preserves, shocked
«The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution form the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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bathing, bathing suit, bony, contribution, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, motion picture, Motion pictures, mouthful, mouthfuls, noticing, occupied, popcorn, shocked, suit of clothes, techniques, The Motion Picture, wore
«The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.»
«The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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craves, impatient, on the other hand, repetition, shocked, tends, tends to, The Ear, the novel, unexpected
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