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• I had great admiration for the election of President Obama. I believe that the U.S. at that moment showed tremendous capacity to show that it is a great nation, and it surprised the world. It may be very difficult to be able to elect a black president in the U.S. – as it was very difficult to elect a woman president in Brazil.

  Dilma Rousseff

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• They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

  Edith Wharton

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• So here, at Arsenal, we are often surprised when we are shown some of the newspapers, and at the bottom of an article there is a line saying if you know of anyone who had an affair with a player, call this number. It is very strange to us.

  Dennis Bergkamp

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• Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

  Denis Waitley

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• You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

  Sarah Dessen

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• On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.

  Buffalo Bill

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• I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of this year. Eddie has to decide who he wants to drive, so there is no secret anywhere. I am not concerned. It does not sit with my objectives to be competitive.

  Damon Hill

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• You’re surprised by something, but you don’t really know what surprised you; you recognize someone, but you don’t really know what cues cause you to recognize that person.

  Daniel Kahneman

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• Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I’m continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

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• I wouldn’t be surprised if this game went all the way to the finish.

  Ian St. John

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• I guess what’s most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don’t seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

  Brian De Palma

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• It’s hard to be surprised by a film. It’s hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you’ve seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I’m watching someone’s movie, or when I don’t know how someone made a certain turn that I didn’t expect . . . You know, I’m in.

  Brad Pitt

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• The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

  Freya Stark

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• After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.

  Frederick Sanger

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• I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn’t know it was in System V.

  Bill Joy

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• I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I’ve done.

  Bill Forsyth

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• People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don’t really read children’s books.

  Beverly Cleary

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•  This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I’m surprised it’s as good as it is.

  Francis Thomas Vincent Jr.

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• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  Barney Frank

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• He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

  Ferdinand Heinrich Gustav Hilgard

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