"Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!"
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"I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me."
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"Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer."
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"I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world."
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"I'm 48, which is a bit of a shock to me. Why only last year I thought I was a precocious young thing!"
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"If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad."
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"Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you."
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"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."
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"At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment."
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"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
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"Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist."
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"Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it."
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"I never dress to shock."
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"Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness."
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"Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock."
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"I like to shock people."
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"Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor."
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