Nothing is more hackneyed than the liberal dogma that shock value confers automatic importance on an artwork.
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.
I think smartphones need to send an electrical shock to a user when they get their your/you're mixed up.
When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.
You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister's child.
Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.
I feel like I need to improve in every area. That might shock people, but I'm never satisfied with my game.
I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
I landed in Kabul the day before Shock and Awe in Iraq, and you could all but hear the collective groan.
The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.
It was a shock for me to see that there are obviously more people in Germany with fascist opinions than I thought there would be.
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.
The world of football has changed. 'We're going to start a freshman quarterback!' 'Oooh really?!' That was taboo. It's not a shock anymore.
Take too much pleasure in good things, you'll feel The shock of adverse fortune makes you reel.
Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
I'm not intentionally dirty. It just kind of happens. It's not like I'm a shock comic who's looking to walk people.
I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.
We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.
It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
I've always wanted a movie where the bad guy came out on top. It would shock the world.
You can't have bad things happening to characters simply for shock value; you need to provide context.
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.
Yes, it's quite amazing how I continue to shock my mother even after all these years together
The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
I'm in my fifties now. That's still a shock when I say it out loud, because I don't feel any different to when I was in my thirties.
The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant.
I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.
There is humor in the specter of the worst disaster in our nation's history. All I have to do is sweep away the debris of shock to find it.
If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.
The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.
Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber.
What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.
One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.
The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.
With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.
I'm not easily offended. I have a pretty high tolerance for raunchiness or shock value, so I'm the wrong person to use as a gauge.
I believe movies are showing us what we already know with aliens especially, so when we do get to meet them it's not a big shock.
The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.
I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.
When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.
University was a shock to the system. At times, I really thought I couldn't do it. It's the same with 'Strictly.' I'm completely out of my comfort zone.
This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened.
I was having a lot of people ask me to update 'The Shock Doctrine' and add a chapter about Trump.
I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.
I like to create a shock moment. I take what not everybody wants and really get people to believe that's me.
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