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"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."
Teri Hatcher
"I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability."
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"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
"Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune."
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"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
Mickey Spillane
"I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien."
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"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
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"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing."
Roger Caras
"There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing."
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"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
Douglas Hurd
"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."
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"Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
David Ben Gurion
"Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
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"I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years."
Lee Trevino
"I'm not scared of very much. I've been hit by lightning and been in the Marine Corps for four years."
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"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
Carly Simon
"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
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"But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear."
Reese Witherspoon
"But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear."
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"I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that."
Mary Tyler Moore
"I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that."
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"It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp."
Pat Sajak
"It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp."
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"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."
William Cowper
"Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees."
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"The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony."
Hans Blix
"The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony."
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"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."
David Hume
"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."
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"If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves."
Bryant McGill
"If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves."
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"Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves."
Milan Kundera
"Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves."
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"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."
David Herbert Lawrence
"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."
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"When desire dies, fear is born."
Baltasar Gracian
"When desire dies, fear is born."
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"I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear."
Margot Kidder
"I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear."
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"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."
Mary Catherine Bateson
"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."
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"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
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"Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you."
Paul Tsongas
"Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you."
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"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."
Babe Ruth
"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."
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"Knight without fear and without reproach."
Richard Harris Barham
"Knight without fear and without reproach."
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"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."
Liza Minnelli
"The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you."
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"Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!"
Peter Cushing
"Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!"
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"Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality."
Vironika Tugaleva
"Fear is just a misunderstanding of your immortality."
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"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."
William Tecumseh Sherman
"My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us."
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"I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear."
Patrick Rothfuss
"I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear."
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"Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?"
Mary Wollstonecraft
"Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?"
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"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."
Rene Magritte
"We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world."
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"We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen."
Joyce Meyer
"We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen."
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"Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters."
George Orwell
"Suddenly they were both leaping around him, shouting 'Traitor!' and 'Thought-criminal!', the little girl imitating her brother in every movement. It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters."
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"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
John Adams
"Fear is the foundation of most governments."
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"Those who fear life are already three parts dead."
Bertrand Russell
"Those who fear life are already three parts dead."
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"Fear Only Constraints Undeveloped Strength where your eyes look to within, is what your heart will believe."
Anthony Liccione
"Fear Only Constraints Undeveloped Strength where your eyes look to within, is what your heart will believe."
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"Frightened people live in their own special hell."
Stephen King
"Frightened people live in their own special hell."
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"Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home."
J. R. R. Tolkien
"Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home."
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"There is nothing in this world that I fear to say."
Dmitri Mendeleev
"There is nothing in this world that I fear to say."
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"Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control."
Virginia C. Andrews
"Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control."
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"This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part."
Bernhard von Bulow
"This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part."
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"Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be."
Terry Pratchett
"Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be."
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"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."
Vannevar Bush
"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation."
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"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."
Robert Falcon Scott
"I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record."
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"The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them."
Bruno Bettelheim
"The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them."
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"Action conquers fear."
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"Action conquers fear."
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"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."
John Mortimer
"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."
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"Courage is a peculiar kind of fear."
Charles Kennedy
"Courage is a peculiar kind of fear."
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"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."
Lee Tergesen
"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."
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