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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
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Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.
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Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
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Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
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Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
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Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown... they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!
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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
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I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
The Zookeepers Wife (2008) -
I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.
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I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.
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I'm surprised to find absence of explicit anti-Semitism this time. Was a page missing?
In response to a constituents angry letter. Quoted in Slate Magazine, November 29, 2011. -
I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.
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If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958) -
If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
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If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.
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