When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
Many emerging countries are facing the same issue of overheating and inflation because they have been vigorously expanding fiscal and monetary policy to counter the 2008 shock.
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
What used to be edgy (divorces) has become mainstream and what used to be mainstream (racism and sexism) has become shocking.
There's the moment in 'Saw' where I get up off of the floor at the end. That was shocking, because no one expects it. I thought they did that really, really well.
Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.
I have not been in Washington very long, but I've been there long enough to be shocked by how antiquated some of our laws have become.
I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking
My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.
Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.
Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.
When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.
People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
In retrospect, I'm really shocked at how far I put my heart out there on the line with 'Prima Donna'. I seem to have this knack for being able to accomplish that.
How did I end up in films with people like Keira Knightley... all these beautiful leading ladies and me - it's kind of shocking.
The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.
People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
