- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nighttime frequently increases alertness, and each mission should consider the ramifications of a night assault. Several of the most successful special operations were conducted in daytime and achieved a high degree of surprise.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to create a nice environment and let people reveal themselves instead of trying to trick them or surprise them with a hidden question.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a big surprise for me when they asked me to bat at three. That is a big thing. I was focussed on playing the situation. You need to be open anyway if you are playing for a team like India.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
- Dogs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.
- Biggest Surprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.
- Nov 07, 2020
The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
- Himself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.
- Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a complete surprise when Warren called me at my office at Yahoo, and my secretary said it was Warren Buffett. I figured it was a friend of mine playing a joke on me.
- Nov 07, 2020
That was just kind of a surprise when the doctor said, 'We did a biopsy on your appendix, and you have cancer.'
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.
- Element
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surprise is a huge element in acting.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it is OK to surprise people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.
- Big Surprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.
- Structure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.
- Quantum
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.
- Bottom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
- Limit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The abolition of the presidential term limit and President Xi Jinping's concentration of power have come as an unwelcome surprise to many.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a result of being on 'SVU' and 'Homicide' all these years, there's a lot of people who don't know I used to do stand-up. When they see me onstage, it's a surprise, and it's revelatory. I'm happy because I can do my old material, so everybody wins.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I've ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander.
- Gamer
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- Nov 07, 2020
No gamer, whether you've played 'Duke 3D' or you haven't, can play 'Duke Forever' without having experiences that surprise them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my surprise, I have an Emmy nomination, and I have never even been to the Emmys! So it's like I am Cinderella. But actually having thought about it, I am Cinder-elder!
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
- Cafe
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a surprise for my family when I told them that I was offered 'Madras Cafe.' My family was initially worried because I have got no film background.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the play of 'Fleabag,' we had conversations with different channels and with film companies about whether 'Fleabag' should be a half-hour sitcom, an hourlong, serialized drama, or a film. And I knew that it couldn't be a drama because I wanted to hide the drama - that had to be the surprise. I knew it had to be comedy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.
- Nov 07, 2020
With every project, there are things that surprise you with the meaning they take on as you start to use them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has happened a few times that I've found myself in a surprise mid-tour recording session.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually got a nice surprise about being a mother because I expected it to be harder and to have to make more adaptations.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great surprise of the first 100 days, and the most ominous. For any new war could vitiate the Trump mandate and consume his presidency.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum is incredibly leftwing, and my dad was quite rightwing - no surprise they didn't stay together - and so I had two very conflicting political opinions as a child, neither of which I was interested in taking any notice of, being a sort of little reprobate.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Tim Timtya' was different from what I usually do. I had to develop a texture to go with the song. In fact, many told me I sounded like Shreya Goshal, which came as a pleasant surprise. Transitioning from tracks like 'Sunny Sunny' to this one was quite different.
- Mountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are times when I surprise myself with the kind of patience I have shown and then there are times when I felt that I could have handled it easily but I made a mountain out of a mole.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People often express surprise that I'm not a psychopath. But it's not about what I want to do to other people, it's that I'm scared of what other people might do to me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this element of surprise when you're writing songs, like it's something outside of you that you get to be part of. And it's just exciting. And that's why I keep writing - because I like that feeling.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People aren't expecting me to look how I do. But that's one of the main reasons it works so well: the surprise factor.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020