Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many"
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Robert Downey, Jr.
Actor, Producer
"Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me."
Steven Wright
Comedian
"You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head."
Taylor Swift
Singer, Songwriter
"Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you."
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice."
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"There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me."
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"Nothing scares me but God."
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"I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing."
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"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
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"They can't scare me, if I scare them first."
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"I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."
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"Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue."
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"Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters."
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"It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission."
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"Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body."
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"Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit."
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"It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois."
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"What gets yme excited about a project and character is the director, the script, who's involved in the movie, and the character. Those are pretty much the essentials. If it's something different, if it scares me, in a way, if it will stretch me or push me into certain places that I haven't been to, then I like that. If you're just trying to talk yourself into it, then it's probably not for you. It's hard to be selective."
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"When we face our fears, we can find our freedom."
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"Space Jam was weird because everybody has their own perception of what Bugs Bunny should sound like. Everybody. Somebody would just stick their head in the door and say, "He sounds too Jewish." Or, "He's too tough, he's off-putting. You gotta seduce kids, not scare them out the door.""
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"I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them."
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"The things that scare you only make you better and stronger."
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"Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better."
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"Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection."
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"I love horror films, but it's more than an adrenaline rush for me. I love them because I know they scare me. It's kind of like I go on roller coasters, but I'm terrified of roller coasters, sort of thing."
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