Surprising Quotes
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It`s surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time
Barbara Kingsolver
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El Salvador is a democracy so it`s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle
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That`s a good question. Actually no. Surprising enough we kept a boundary. There is a fine line as you`ve probably seen and we didn`t overstep that mark. Yes, we`re still very good platonic friends. We`ll leave it at that. - When asked about his relations...
William Moseley
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(On River Phoenix) I feel blessed to have worked with him and to have known him. He challenged me as an actress, he was always surprising and startlingly honest. He was an all to fleeting presence in my life, a beautiful young man. Who will always be in m...
Samantha Mathis
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Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh. I`ve yet to find another one which was surprising enough to do.
Mike Newell
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I was shocked at the prejudice, voiced in some quarters, over my decision to adopt a mixed-race baby. It`s really surprising that people still put so much emphasis on it. None of us are pure anything. We`re all a mixture. Claudia is a beautiful child, and...
Michelle Pfeiffer
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People like us, who turn ourselves inside out for a living, we get into an emotional tussle rather than a marriage. It`s fire I`m playing with and it isn`t surprising I`m not the ideal companion on a daily basis. But it takes two. I mean, Christ, I haven`...
John Hurt
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Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
Elliott Carter
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With the amount of dogs at the campground, it`s surprising a cat would get too close.
Sandy Nelson
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With the amount of dogs at the campground, it`s surprising a cat would get too close,
Sandy Nelson
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Whether or not Clarence Norman has formally endorsed Sampson, he`s certainly been telling people to vote for him, so it shouldn`t be surprising that he`s handing out flyers for him, if that`s what happening,
Ashura Jenkins
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When you`re an actor, you do a lot of the same kind of thing. It`s great when someone gets you to do something that`s a little surprising.
Christopher Walken
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When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.
John McCarthy
Keywords: by :: conviction :: is :: meet :: nature :: not :: political :: surprising :: thugs :: whenSource: brainyquote.com -
When teams bang him around like they did tonight, it`s surprising. But everyone`s allowed a speed bump every once in a while.
Anne Milling
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When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory.
Floyd Abrams
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What is surprising, ... how little attention [the memo] has received in some of the most important news media in the United States despite its being an official document that contradicts the North American version of the beginning of the war.
Jorge Ramos
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We`ve got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it`s not surprising airline stocks are going up.
Akihiko Yokoyama
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We saw the market get so oversold that it`s not surprising that we`re getting a rebound. The market got too pessimistic about how rapidly the Fed will tighten next year.
Angel Espada
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We are glad we had such a large turnout and it is surprising but I understand why they are here. People are tired of what`s going on in our schools.
Larry Wilson
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Tonight, a surprising new development in the CIA leak investigation. Karl Rove`s testimony to a federal grand jury is being reported. The testimony suggests that President Bush`s political adviser may not have been the original source for the Valerie Plam...
Lou Dobbs
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To see this effect in such a large population is quite striking and is surprising.
Jennifer Lee
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This year has been very strong for the e-commerce industry. Every indicator in this space, from online sales, broadband growth and domain registration is up. It`s not surprising that individuals, small businesses and even the bigger brick-and-mortar retai...
David Berkowitz
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This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.
Julius Rosenberg
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don`t get it. It`s surprising.
Macaulay Culkin
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These new crimes are hardly surprising to those of us who recognized the fraud behind the war from the very beginning and the vote obstruction in the 2004 national election. As the mountain of evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors has grown, so has the...
Michael Berg
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The magnitude was surprising and we were fairly conservative in trying to estimate the economic cost of lost labor time.
Karen Davis
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The ferocity with which the presidential press corps went after the Karl Rove story is startling, but it shouldn`t be surprising.
Howard Fineman
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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette`s childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
Antonia Fraser
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The categories revealing declines are not surprising, reflecting the discounting by retailers that routinely occurs during the later stages of the holiday season.
Paul Mason
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The big curry boom started 30 years ago and curry has almost become a staple food in this country. We now have British parents who have eaten curry all their adult life exposing their children to it at a very young age. It`s not surprising they love it; i...
Sanjay
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