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To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

~A. J. Liebling

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There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

~Christopher Walken

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I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.

~Daniel Bryan

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One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

~Darin Strauss

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It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

~E. T. Bell

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The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

~Eliza Dushku

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I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.

~Elizabeth George

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Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable.

~George Wendt

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