Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.


Mae West

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VINCE YOUNG
We are deeply shocked by this tragedy. Our sympathy and condolences go out to all those who have bee...
BRIAN BRUCE
I'm shocked right now,
CHRIS HUGHES
Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?
ASHISH KUMAR
I would be absolutely shocked.
JOE JERZEWSKI
I'm shocked! Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
CLAUDE RAINS
I'm always shocked when I get an invitation. People are always shocked when they see me at a par...
JOAN RIVERS
We are obviously shocked, stunned and horrified,
DAVID TRIMBLE
If Sony gets any more specific than saying 'late spring' or 'midyear,' I'll be shocked.
DANIELLE LEVITAS
They've shocked everybody, I guess. Except themselves. I'm positive they haven't shocked themselves.
BOBBY PLUMP
I'm shocked by these results.
ASHISH K. JHA
We were shocked by the results.
LESLIE LEINWAND
It was an off year; I was shocked,
SHERYL CROW
I was shocked from the question,
ROBERT MORGAN
I'm still shocked that I was chosen.
CHLOE DAO
Just like everybody here I'm shocked that we're in this situation.
MIKE BABCOCK
I'm really shocked something like this would happen.
BARBARA SMITH
A plumber's idea of Cleopatra [Mae West].
W. C. FIELDS
The one who prosperity takes too much delight in will be the most shocked by reverses.
HORACE
You get married at twenty, you're going to be shocked who you're living with at thirty.
PETER BLAKE
I'm often shocked by what I see. There are days when it seems unendurable. I'm a doctor, but I'm als...
DR. RAED ARINI
would be shocked if they solved the problem.
WILLIAM ARBAUGH
Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand ...
BRANDON SANDERSON
How do you do, Miss West? Mae West: How do you do what?
MAE WEST
The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet w...
FRANK RICH
We are shocked, stunned and saddened by this news.
JOEL KAPLAN
We are shocked. It is tragic news for Sebastian.
JOACHIM LOW
The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would th...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult&...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never st...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nat...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.
MICHELLE SHOCKED
Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
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As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army bra...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
Yeah, I am a hick. I am naive, and I am sincere and it's wonderfully unfashionable.
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Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corne...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go.
MICHELLE SHOCKED
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.
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The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think ...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
There is no one like him alive today, ... He was a vast treasure trove and storehouse of musical and...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.
MICHELLE SHOCKED
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to th...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army bra...
MICHELLE SHOCKED
I'm shocked, absolutely shocked, just like Capt. Renault in 'Casablanca,' that he would be going to ...
TOM UMBERG
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
NIELS BOHR
We are all shocked. Our prayers are with the Puckett family.
BERT BLYLEVEN
It's a very big deal. Shocked. I mean, just shocked that the oversight was lacking in the board.
JEFF RIESE
I'm not shocked we're doing as well as we are.
DEREK KEENAN
We are used to Cheshire being very good but I think they were more shocked in the first half.
CHRISTINA DONIGIAN
In several deaths, people were shocked more than once. That's a common factor.
MARK SCHLOSBERG
We are on the brink ... and anyone who thinks the political situation is manageable at this rate of ...
JOHN MAKUMBE
They are shocked by the increases (in monthly payments) they are getting.
CHRIS VIALE
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the p...
DAVE BARRY
An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away. ~Mae West
LAINA CHARLESTON
Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
They're amazed. They are always shocked when they walk in here.
BILL GOTTSCHALK
We did not expect such a heavy penalty. We are shocked.
HALUK ULUSOY
It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulga...
FRANCOIS NARS
I'm shocked by these results.
ASHISH JHA
I was just very shocked.
CAPT. CHRISTINE VALLELY
Hey look! It's Michelle Shocked!
DEAN DEVLIN
We were shocked and disgusted.
CONCEICAO PINHAO
I was kind of shocked.
LEIGH BODDEN
I can't say I'm shocked.
KURT KEENER
They're not shocked by much,
JULIE WEIS
They couldn't be more wrong. We are shocked, saddened and deeply disappointed by what happened. We d...
HANK RIBERAS
Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed...
G.K. CHESTERTON
I'll be very shocked if we didn't use all of it.
HOPE WHITE
I'm shocked at being recognized.
DAN STEVENS
I don't think it's a bombshell. I don't think anybody is shocked by this.
CURT SMITH
I am still in shock about the whole thing, I am just shocked at how beautiful it was.
KYM HART
Everyone in the museum was shocked and disturbed by this.
LEIGH GOODWYN
All of were shocked, all of us were stunned. All of us are trying to figure out what do we do now?
WILLIAM HOGARTH
I don't want to leave, I don't think I'm going to leave and if I do, I'll be as shocked as anybody. ...
WARRICK DUNN
The president was very shocked to learn about this.
VUK JEREMIC
I was very shocked. I didn't expect it to go like that. I just have to make the best of it.
GREG LEE
Many British who are still alive who served in Far East were shocked by some of the facts that I dis...
BERNARD WASSERSTEIN
When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West.
MAE WEST
I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.
MICHAEL KEATON
I've been doing a lot of thinking about you lately. Mae West, You must be awful tired.
MAE WEST
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
I'm obviously very surprised and shocked.
GRANT RICE
I am shocked by the allegations.
KIRT WEBSTER
My jaw dropped. I was shocked.
KIRBY JONES
We were sad, disappointed, shell-shocked.
JENNA LOPEZ
Hall is a good Christian boy, never any trouble, ... I've known the whole family for years. I'm shoc...
FRED WILLIAMS
People will be shocked to see how safe it is to live in New York City. Victims and offenders are pre...
ANDREW KARMEN
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C. S. LEWIS
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ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN
These people rioting, they are uneducated and out of work. We are more aware, although we were also ...
AHMED HASSAN
It was so unexpected it shocked me.
GREGG SMITH
I will be shocked if Al Leiter doesn't come into the game now.
TIM MCCARVER
Oh, Miss West, I've heard so much about you. Mae West: Yeah, honey, but you can't prove a thing.
MAE WEST
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I believe in the single standard for men and women.
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I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.
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I'm tired, send one of them home
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Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you.
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Do not marry a man to reform him. That is what reform schools are for.
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I can always tell a lady when I see one. Yeah? What do you tell 'em?
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Don't come crawlin' to a man for love--he likes to get a run for his money.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
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The score never interested me, only the game.
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The curve is more powerful than the sword.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I take it out in the open and laugh at it.
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