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- Nov 07, 2020
Unexpected Quotes
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- Craves
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feelings come at really unexpected moments to all of us, and they come so fast.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is easy to predict that some of the discoveries of research directed towards Grand Challenges - but only the most unexpected ones, and at the most unexpected times - will be the basis of revolutionary improvements in the way that we exploit the power of our future computing devices.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if I never sold another book, I'd keep writing, because the stories are here, in my head. Stories that just need to be told. I love watching a plot unfold, and feeling the surprise when the unexpected happens.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter the circumstances are that you lose someone, nobody's truly prepared. Steve's accident was so unexpected - it was extremely challenging.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and horticulture was unexpected.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that part of the reason I like collaboration so much is because it's something unexpected coming in, and you have to stretch yourself to absorb it.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a contemporary artist with a bit of an unexpected background. I was in my 20s before I ever went to an art museum. I grew up in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in rural Arkansas, an hour from the nearest movie theater.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decision to use recognition as an on-the-spot bonus instead of merely pay increases is a fascinating one, because pay increases can create new mental anchors for how much the person feels happy earning, whereas the social recognition program is ongoing, unexpected, and harder to form a mental anchor around.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is something that's going to pull you up short. I want to reassure young readers. I want to comfort them, to not fear the unexpected.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
My career definitely took an unexpected change in direction when it came to 'Here Lies Love.'
- Exacerbate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet allows foreign adversaries to attack America in new and unexpected ways. Free and fair elections are hard-fought and contentious. There will always be adversaries who work to exacerbate domestic differences and try to confuse, divide, and conquer us.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.
- Daily Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.
- 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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a musician, one of the things that comes to you in the beginning that is quite unexpected is the reaction from your fans, and to the way your music plays an important part in their life in figuring things out.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of negotiating a career - I've always grown up being an insider and an outsider to different worlds, across different classes and cultures, so I have always naturally liked making films or music that puts things in unexpected places.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too often, bridal shows are boring - I love including a small, unexpected element to make it interesting, like the removable skirts and umbrellas in seasons past.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I work on a role, I always allow it to subconsciously take me to a place that is magical and unexpected, rather than consciously driving it to a place.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity and am delighted by the unexpected. Ideas interest me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
- Huge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wannabe was so huge. So big. So unexpected.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think probably the majority of political actions don't go the way people are going to go. Just because there were unexpected consequences and maybe not the resolution people would have liked to have been seen doesn't mean it was less valid of an action.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically i've done a few podcasts one is 'Prepare for the Unexpected' which is a guide to my life and how I deal with things and I've also done a 'Guide to Surving the Summer Festivals' too.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.
- Expressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.
- Developments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opinion polls often suffer on account of unexpected developments once the electoral process starts, such as the death of a political leader (as in the case of the late Rajiv Gandhi).
- Condolences
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a journey of discovery because until you start, you never know what will happen, and you can be surprised by what you do - expect the unexpected!
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guests love to be 'wowed' in Las Vegas. They enjoy and embrace new tastes, new flavors, and they come to expect the unexpected in Las Vegas.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.
- Enable
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Wellcome Trust will retain a level of financial flexibility which will enable us to react quickly to unexpected developments and new ideas.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always tried to control everything and every aspect of my life, and this is maybe the biggest lesson I've learnt with motherhood - you just can't control everything, and I'm much more relaxed now about unexpected changes and things that happen.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing 16 years is completely unexpected and going through everything we went through. Big disappointments, huge wins, creating that type of union with the coaching staff, with the front office, with the staff, teammates. It's been an amazing journey, way beyond anything that can be expected.
- Bad Guys
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to play just an all out bad guy who has fun being malicious. It would be totally unexpected, and that's what would make it exciting. Plus, bad guys don't see themselves as bad guys, so you could have fun with that.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me. But I'd listen to a lot of that, and a lot of Ed Sheeran, actually.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.
- Followers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to be drawn to characters who are not rule followers, who behave in unexpected and unusual ways.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We try to keep audiences coming back in greater numbers by doing the unexpected and not simply following a pattern or a mold or a formula.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is so unexpected, it goes beyond my wildest dreams. Sometimes I just sit back and think. 'Oh my God, I'm in the movies!' It still hasn't sunk in.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Unexpected Legacy' reports the findings of the California Children of Divorce Study, which began in 1971, a year after the nation's first no-fault divorce law was imposed in California. Wallerstein was the principal investigator on the study.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really liked the script of 'Alone.' I thought there were a lot unexpected things in the film, which I would want to watch as a viewer. I did not think like I was doing a horror film; I did not think in terms of genre. I decided on the basis of the script.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charm is a product of the unexpected.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is a decades-long experiment, conducted mostly in private; a test of will in the face of unexpected obstacles.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020