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"If your fear is talking to people, then go out and talk to people. You will find it just keeps getting easier and there's really nothing to be afraid of. However, I can tell you that if I stop for a month, it starts to seem scary again. So, the easiest way to fend off fear is to attack it, embrace it."
"That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating."
"Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer."
"Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times"
"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests."
"You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing."
"Most people settle for connection, because love's too scary. They don't want to lose that feeling, that super high is too crushing so they settle for the comfort of connection."
"All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world."
"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."
"When I was first published it was like having people rushing in coming to find out where I was hiding. Scary!"
"They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe."
"How do you know you told a good punch line, a good joke? It's because they laugh. How do you know you've got a good scary punch line? It's because they jump out of the seat or scream. So the best reward is one you can listen to."
"Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat."
"Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie."
"Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?"
"Love me or hate me, Scary Spice is back."
"If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them."
"I just told the whole truth and that felt really incredible and really scary."
"What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite."
"A human head looks the least scary when it is attached."
