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We are shocked that there was any value of Keystone left in TransCanada. – Norman Levine	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There's not quite this spontaneity that there was when I was coming through and also there wasn't mobile phones with cameras so obviously we got away with a lot more than new artists do, but generally speaking, I don't think you can shock the public anymore, I think they've been shocked enough. – Rod Stewart	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I had no inkling whatsoever, i was as shocked and dismayed by the reports that I read as anyone else around here. – John Boehner	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There will be no drama, i would be shocked if he didn’t get well over 218. – Glenn Grothman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I would be shocked if he didn’t get well over 218. – Glenn Grothman	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
So sad, shocked devastated to hear about Jake Bailey. He was such an amazing person, an incredibly talented makeup artist and friend, we traveled the world together, worked on so many beautiful projects and shared so many memories. Will miss him so much. – Paris Hilton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'd be shocked if it was the same offer. – Emmet Sullivan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They lived through a very turbulent financial period when they saw their parents finances hurt by the (credit) crisis, they are shell-shocked by the market and keeping their cash in savings accounts. – Kyle Ramsey	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We, at UNHCR, are deeply shocked by this incident. – Boris Cheshirkov	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We need to strongly increase resettlement from Turkey ... We need to substantially increase the number of opportunities for people to come to Europe legally, it's impossible not to be shocked when we see those boats which are manufactured just for this crossing, very fragile. I have never seen boats as fragile as those I have seen in Lesbos, (which) are destroyed immediately afterwards. This is horrible. – Refugees Antonio Guterres	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Today we heard the decision, as did many of our colleagues, and many of them are extremely shocked, because this is something that places responsibility upon the mine owners, because they are the entity that must supervise what happens. As supervisors, they should have prevented it. They should have known what sectors were at risk of collapsing. – Luis Urzua	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The more I was reading about the many massacres... the more I was completely shocked by the events, i found out about the way history has been twisted, to the point that the kids we worked with had no idea about what really happened. – Francis Alys '	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think those days when people were out to be shocked and to shock are not where artists really are at the moment, artists are interested in engaging in ideas with the public and I think what's exciting about this edition of the Turner Prize is that it feels very now, very of the moment. – Sarah Munro	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I want to be very clear, the manipulation of tests for diesel engines is a moral and political disaster, the illegal behaviour of developers and technicians in the development of engines has shocked Volkswagen as much as it has the public. – Chairman Huber	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am shocked by the events of the past few days. Above all, I am stunned that misconduct on such a scale was possible in the Volkswagen Group. – Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It shocked me because it's PG-13 and you're like, 'Well how much am I allowed to see?' It's scary. I jumped out of my seat. – Rosa Salazar	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There is nothing in Aleppo, I am Sultan Kitaz there, the world is shocked by the pictures of the dead Syrian toddler but what I have seen in Aleppo is much more cruel. I saw whole families obliterated. I saw whole neighborhoods destroyed( and) many of my friends were killed. We have no other way out, we have no other solution. – Sultan Kitaz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Most of my friends are shocked by this, embarrassed that they live in a country where this is happening, it's very much out of step with the way ordinary New Zealanders feel about freedom of expression. – Ted Dawe	Found on CNN 8 years ago
In hindsight, I am kind of shocked that we did it, and we did it the way we did it, the speech just elevated her stature as a voice for women in a way no one predicted. We had no idea it was going to become this enormous thing and that she was going to become iconic. – Lissa Muscatine	Found on CNN 8 years ago
While no children were physically harmed during this incident, we have a zero tolerance policy for anyone who acts in conflict with the core value of Lightbridge Academy – the safety and well-being of children, as parents and caregivers, we are shocked and saddened by this isolated incident. – Brenda Febbo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As parents and caregivers, we are shocked and saddened by this isolated incident. – Brenda Febbo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm shocked that he would have that thing around his neck, it could've bit his neck, and that would have been it. That's just being a fool. – Alex Gomez mother	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When I told the curator, he was so shocked that for two to three minutes he couldn't utter a single word, but he was actually most worried that the boy and his family would put too much pressure on themselves. – Sun Chi-hsuan	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We didn’t take any action because it (the memorial) did not have any religious ties to us at all, i only see it as a memorial to the veterans and it shocked me that someone could see it otherwise. – Mayor Hatch	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

We are shocked that there was any value of Keystone left in TransCanada.

– Norman Levine

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's not quite this spontaneity that there was when I was coming through and also there wasn't mobile phones with cameras so obviously we got away with a lot more than new artists do, but generally speaking, I don't think you can shock the public anymore, I think they've been shocked enough.

– Rod Stewart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I had no inkling whatsoever, i was as shocked and dismayed by the reports that I read as anyone else around here.

– John Boehner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There will be no drama, i would be shocked if he didn’t get well over 218.

– Glenn Grothman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I would be shocked if he didn’t get well over 218.

– Glenn Grothman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

So sad, shocked devastated to hear about Jake Bailey. He was such an amazing person, an incredibly talented makeup artist and friend, we traveled the world together, worked on so many beautiful projects and shared so many memories. Will miss him so much.

– Paris Hilton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'd be shocked if it was the same offer.

– Emmet Sullivan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They lived through a very turbulent financial period when they saw their parents finances hurt by the (credit) crisis, they are shell-shocked by the market and keeping their cash in savings accounts.

– Kyle Ramsey

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We, at UNHCR, are deeply shocked by this incident.

– Boris Cheshirkov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need to strongly increase resettlement from Turkey ... We need to substantially increase the number of opportunities for people to come to Europe legally, it's impossible not to be shocked when we see those boats which are manufactured just for this crossing, very fragile. I have never seen boats as fragile as those I have seen in Lesbos, (which) are destroyed immediately afterwards. This is horrible.

– Refugees Antonio Guterres

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Today we heard the decision, as did many of our colleagues, and many of them are extremely shocked, because this is something that places responsibility upon the mine owners, because they are the entity that must supervise what happens. As supervisors, they should have prevented it. They should have known what sectors were at risk of collapsing.

– Luis Urzua

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The more I was reading about the many massacres... the more I was completely shocked by the events, i found out about the way history has been twisted, to the point that the kids we worked with had no idea about what really happened.

– Francis Alys '

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think those days when people were out to be shocked and to shock are not where artists really are at the moment, artists are interested in engaging in ideas with the public and I think what's exciting about this edition of the Turner Prize is that it feels very now, very of the moment.

– Sarah Munro

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I want to be very clear, the manipulation of tests for diesel engines is a moral and political disaster, the illegal behaviour of developers and technicians in the development of engines has shocked Volkswagen as much as it has the public.

– Chairman Huber

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am shocked by the events of the past few days. Above all, I am stunned that misconduct on such a scale was possible in the Volkswagen Group.

– Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It shocked me because it's PG-13 and you're like, 'Well how much am I allowed to see?' It's scary. I jumped out of my seat.

– Rosa Salazar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is nothing in Aleppo, I am Sultan Kitaz there, the world is shocked by the pictures of the dead Syrian toddler but what I have seen in Aleppo is much more cruel. I saw whole families obliterated. I saw whole neighborhoods destroyed( and) many of my friends were killed. We have no other way out, we have no other solution.

– Sultan Kitaz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Most of my friends are shocked by this, embarrassed that they live in a country where this is happening, it's very much out of step with the way ordinary New Zealanders feel about freedom of expression.

– Ted Dawe

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In hindsight, I am kind of shocked that we did it, and we did it the way we did it, the speech just elevated her stature as a voice for women in a way no one predicted. We had no idea it was going to become this enormous thing and that she was going to become iconic.

– Lissa Muscatine

Found on CNN
8 years ago

While no children were physically harmed during this incident, we have a zero tolerance policy for anyone who acts in conflict with the core value of Lightbridge Academy – the safety and well-being of children, as parents and caregivers, we are shocked and saddened by this isolated incident.

– Brenda Febbo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As parents and caregivers, we are shocked and saddened by this isolated incident.

– Brenda Febbo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm shocked that he would have that thing around his neck, it could've bit his neck, and that would have been it. That's just being a fool.

– Alex Gomez mother

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When I told the curator, he was so shocked that for two to three minutes he couldn't utter a single word, but he was actually most worried that the boy and his family would put too much pressure on themselves.

– Sun Chi-hsuan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We didn’t take any action because it (the memorial) did not have any religious ties to us at all, i only see it as a memorial to the veterans and it shocked me that someone could see it otherwise.

– Mayor Hatch

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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