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- Nov 07, 2020
Unexpected Quotes
For the moments nobody saw coming.
One line here compares the ear's love of the familiar to the eye's restless search for something new, showing how differently we each meet surprise. Explore that idea further through our Change collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
- Big Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at the end, the results are completely unexpected.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
AI has been making tremendous progress in machine translation, self-driving cars, etc. Basically, all the progress I see is in specialised intelligence. It might be hundreds or thousands of years or, if there is an unexpected breakthrough, decades.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stalking is a cruel and incessant crime with often terrifying consequences. Victims can be tormented for years, left too scared to leave their homes and unnerved by the slightest unexpected sound.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It turns out that a Nobel is also followed by other recognitions, and perhaps the most unexpected of these is that the Japan Karate Association in Tokyo has now made me an honorary 7th-degree black belt, something that, given my athletic abilities, is even more unimaginable than being an Economic Sciences Laureate.
- Effective Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.
- Hook
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- Nov 07, 2020
Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.
- Extricate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020