"I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark."
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"In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be."
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"I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear."
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"I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old age become closer to you."
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"It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them."
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"I don't drive. No. Cars terrify me. I am really frightened of cars."
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"but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die."
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"I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not."
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"A frightened man is a beaten man."
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"All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists."
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"Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody."
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"I am almost frightened out of my seven senses."
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