"Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used."
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"My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most."
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"Did you forget me? Or are you too scared to tell me that you met me in fear that I won't remember?"
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"You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant."
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"Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?"
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"Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard."
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"There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people."
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"It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too."
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"I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me."
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"Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave."
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"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it."
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"The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen."
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"I went to vote once, but I got too scared. I couldn't decide whom to vote for."
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"When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing."
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"Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin."
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"anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!"
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"I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."
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"Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare."
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"The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me."
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"Once I'm obsessed with somebody, I'm terrified of them instantly. I'm not scared of them - I'm scared of me and how I will react."
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