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.
Timothy Noah
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From the moment my dad died, from the moment I found out there was the possibility of his dying, there were many surprises - years after, minutes after. The moments I was okay were as surprising as the ones that I wasn't. Making it through the eulogy without losing it. And then the guilt I felt about it. Surprise!
Alysia Reiner
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One of the reasons why I love acting is my obsession with human emotion and faces and expressions - no surprise, then, that I usually end up painting faces. But I haven't done a self-portrait. I'd be too scared.
Carly Chaikin
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Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.
Richard E. Robbins
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My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.
Sophia Amoruso
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Every time something happens, whether I've won the most or lost the most, there's always 'oldest' tied to it. It's not a surprise anymore.
Daniel Nestor
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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.
Richard Belzer
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The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
Tucker Carlson
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The nature of the job of attorney general has changed - irrevocably. And we should never again have an attorney general, of either party, capable of expressing surprise at the role that national security issues now play in the life of the Justice Department or in the role of its chief.
Benjamin Wittes
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I was really young when I signed with Spinnin' Records, and the huge success of 'Animals' hit me by surprise. I didn't expect my life to turn like that at all. But it was a very welcome surprise, to say the least!
Martin Garrix
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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.
Tony Iommi
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My kids are very special; they can bring a lot of surprise.
Yandel
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When you look at the money spent by labor unions for Democrats, it comes as no surprise the Democrats crafted a campaign-finance 'disclosure' bill with the thresholds adjusted to exempt unions.
Mark McKinnon
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The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.
Tom Cruise
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There were a lot of times I'd hide in my locker and jump out and surprise people. Whenever friends would come by, I'd open the locker and hit' em.
Verne Troyer
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When you surprise yourself and you can't remember what the take felt like, then something transformative has happened.
Lily Collins
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I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.
Rita Dove
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I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.
Taron Egerton
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In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
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I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
Ruth Warrick
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This is probably going to surprise people, but if you were to do a scan around the globe on public policy concerning our industry, you would probably have to conclude that the United States has the policy that has been, I believe, the most pro competition.
Randall L. Stephenson
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The thing that we tell - that I tell - members is, 'Vote your district. Vote your conscience; just don't surprise us.'
Kevin McCarthy
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My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.
Roz Savage
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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