#surprise

I've always known I would be a success, but I was surprised at the way it came. ↗

— Eva Gabor

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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility. ↗

— Laura Linney

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I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. ↗

— Pierre Loti

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I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all. ↗

— James Lovelock

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I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

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Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture. ↗

— Andrew Mason

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I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats. ↗

— John Mayer

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The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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I'm surprised that I've survived my own dysfunction, really. ↗

— George Michael

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