Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole."
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John Wayne
Actor, Director
"All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else."
John Wayne
Actor, Director
"TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!"
Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with."
William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid."
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"I am not scared, I will not be silenced, and I will continue to take to the streets and criticise any wrong doing that I see."
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"I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead."
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"If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn."
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"I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power."
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"Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you."
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"It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die."
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"I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father."
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"As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested."
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"Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway."
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"You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation."
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"I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing."
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"If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day"
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"I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I have never been scared. Not when I did movies, certainly not when I was a model and not when I did I Love Lucy."
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"You can only be brave by being afraid. Embrace what you are scared of and shift its energy to destroy your fears."
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"Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?"
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"I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog."
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"She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone"
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"Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love."
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"I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse."
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"I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me."
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