The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Max Lerner
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I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
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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.
Preet Bharara
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Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
Robert South
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I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
Lee Child
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America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.
Peter Welch
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The more challenges that are thrown at you, the more reward there is on the other side because you surprise yourself and say, 'Wow, these are things I didn't realize I was capable of.'
Matt Czuchry
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I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.
James Blunt
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I think it is OK to surprise people.
Shaun Evans
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine
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The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.
Gene Cernan
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Harry Kane, for example, is a really physical striker but also really skilful. He surprises lot of defenders, but he won't surprise me.
Sergio Ramos
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The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.
Ana Navarro
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One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.
Frank Welker
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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.
Timbaland
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Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them.
Steve Erickson
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Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
Cat Stevens
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We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.
Richard Schiff
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It's all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.
Sonny Rollins
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I do not personally agree with some of the positions that Mr. Gonzales has advocated, but that should come as no surprise, because I do not agree with many of the proposals made by the man who nominated him, President Bush.
Daniel Inouye
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No surprise that, as companies have adopted social media en masse, demand for software and applications to manage and monitor social use has exploded.
Ryan Holmes
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My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I'm so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.
Simone Manuel
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The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.
Edward Albee
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I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.
Martin Freeman
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