Norman Ralph Augustine
Business Executive
"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."
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Intimidating
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Jane Austen
Novelist
"my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."
Dana Gould
Comedian
"Life imitates art but art intimidates life."
Olivia Newton-John
Singer, Actress
"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great."
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"I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me."
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"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."
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"Nothing is more intimidating than an idiotic grin worn by a manifest non-idiot."
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"I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart."
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"When you see something that's so excellent it can be intimidating to walk into it no matter how many people you know."
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"Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there."
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"I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them."
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"I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me."
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"Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well."
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