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I don't want to defend the oil and gas industry but I'd be lying if I said I was surprised to hear they were the number one polluter.
But I was really surprised to see that the fashion industry was number two.
And we've been surprised to find, as young parents, that there are almost more taboos around parenting than there are around sex. AV: It's true.
It was a really wonderful experience, but when I got home, I suddenly felt very disconnected and suddenly shut in and shut out, and I was really surprised by those feelings.
I did expect it to be difficult, have sleepless nights, constant feedings, but I did not expect the feelings of isolation and loneliness that I experienced, and I was really surprised that no one had talked to me, that I was going to be feeling this way.
You may be surprised to know that mammography is the only radiologic study that's regulated by federal law, and the law requires that the equivalent of a 40-pound car battery come down on your breast during this study.
I'm always surprised by how little people outside of Canada know about the Alberta Tar Sands, which this year are projected to become the number one source of imported oil to the United States.
That boy is surprised because he just found out both his parents are black.
I did the 23andMe thing and was very surprised to discover that I am fat and bald.
They were surprised by all of these kinds of issues.
And so I was surprised when I noticed one day that the conservatives had disappeared from my Facebook feed.
You may be pleasantly surprised.
I've not seen corresponding figures for elite scholars in other fields, such as history or philosophy, but I'd be surprised if they were different.
So we always hope that Google will be smart, but we're always surprised when other people think that it is.
You may be surprised to know that a child could be saved every 22 seconds if there was breastfeeding in the first six months of life.
Julia Bacha: When I first heard about the story of Budrus, I was surprised that the international media had failed to cover the extraordinary set of events that happened seven years ago, in 2003.
Which is why I was surprised a few months later to see her back in our own town, getting her subsequent care with her private oncologist.
But in reality, I don't know why I was really surprised by this story, because when I was five years old, and my mother, like mothers and fathers all across the United States, was taking me to school to enroll, she pushed my wheelchair to the school in walking distance to our house, pulled the wheelchair up the steps into the school, and we were greeted by the principal.
Begin by opening your eyes and be surprised that you have eyes you can open, that incredible array of colors that is constantly offered to us for our pure enjoyment.
They think Buddha was so boring, and they're so surprised when they meet Dalai Lama and he's fairly jolly.
And the Afghan soldier was so surprised to see me that he forgot to stamp my passport.
This surprised me, because my students are part of a generation that was raised on screens, so I thought for sure they would like learning from a screen better than learning from a page.
So the side effects of this approach are what really surprised us.
What's more, I was doubly surprised at how vulnerable this made me feel.
I was very surprised when I started to do this to see that, in fact, even the people who advocated the use of nonlethal weapons by the military hadn't actually done that.
I was really surprised.
You might be surprised to know that most people in the Gulf who are leading these cultural initiatives happen to be women.
I've worked with… I'm going to give you three examples of other people who've learned to draw, and that actually surprised them, too.
The Hebrew writers in the Old Testament, you will not be surprised to learn, take a rather different view of this.
And equally, he'd have been surprised that he was acting under orders from Marduk.
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