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I'm not really good at being predictive, so I guess I'm willing to be surprised. — Gwen Ifill

If you're used to being a maverick, then people don't get surprised when you start acting strangely. — Richard C. Armitage

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV. — David Bowie

There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold. — Dean Koontz

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. — Pierre Corneille

I am always a little surprised when anyone sees anything I make, so being nominated for the Oscar is beyond amazing - what a tremendous honor. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Common sense, however it tries,
cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. — Bertrand Russell

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer. — Lisa Ling

I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life. — Nouriel Roubini

It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff. — Marc Guggenheim

If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve. — Tony Curl

You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off. — Ronald Reagan

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. — Robert Benchley

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant. — Gerald Durrell

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised? — Stephenie Meyer

People are always surprised to see clues to my being a normal kind of guy. As if I'm somehow letting the team down. — Nick Cave

I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene. — Sloane Crosley

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

Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief. — Benjamin Stone

The beauty of life is its sudden changes. No one knows what is going to happen next, and so we are constantly being surprised and entertained. — L. Frank Baum

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything — Charles Dickens

I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues. — Joe Bradley

So far I'm not surprised by anything about being a mom. It's all pretty great - but that's what I expected. — Charlize Theron

Write. If you've always dreamed of being a writer, write. Even if you think what you write is crap, write. You might be surprised by what happens! — Stephen Woods

I planned on being successful ever since I was young. To me, this is nothing to be surprised about. — Jimmy Rollins

His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate. — Franz Kafka

I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt. — J.A. Konrath

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick. — John McCain

There is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they'll get there. — Jael McHenry

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. — George F. Will

Achati chuckled. You may be surprised. Some might come in the hopes of being snatched away to a secret place ruled by exotic women. — Trudi Canavan

When you stop being surprised, you've stopped living. — Steven Brust

That's what's so wonderful about being in this business because you're constantly surprised. You have to be up for anything. — Blythe Danner

Being a Bengali, one is surprised when all the endless spume and froth of talk suddenly reveals itself to be the front of a gigantic wave of action. — Neel Mukherjee

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead. — L.M. Montgomery

I enjoy being surprised. — Aldis Hodge

I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world. — Sarah Parcak

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt. — Holly Near

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised — Anne Enright

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by. — Alessia Cara

My theory was that if you spent such a big portion of your life being a snob, you were not allowed to be surprised when people start wishing you dead. — Chrissy Moon

Everything in its time, and timing is God's playground. Trust me, being surprised by everything is so much better than needing to control everything. — Wm. Paul Young