"You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success."
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"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
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"Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary."
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"All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them."
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"I'd rather people love me or hate me than have no opinion of me. Indifference is scary."
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"AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious."
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"Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature."
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"The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story."
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"What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject."
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"I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed."
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"Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty."
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"I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values."
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"It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means we have to start making dishonest work, which means it becomes didactic and propaganda in nature."
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"There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it."
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"If studies on lab rats are any indication, human beings have a deep-seated fear of a big, scary cat being let into their cage."
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"I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love."
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"I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way."
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"I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God."
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"We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be E Pluribus Unum - Out of One, Many."
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"I think a lot of people read the album cover as something scary or creepy. I think it's something positive...something lasting."
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