"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."
"Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better."
"Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection."
"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."
"So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily."
"Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great."
"If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?"
"The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't."
"Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do."
"I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway."
"Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you."
"I'm not ashamed to say I fear something. Besides me having a fear to fly, I also don't want to scare other people. When I'm on a plane, I don't want to freak out everyone else, too."
"I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you."
"To do something good, it has to scare you."
"If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked."
"If something scares me, then I have to do it."
"I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality."
"Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."
"Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'"