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• I'm too frightened of confrontation, so I will always tip - even if the service has been really shoddy.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Confrontation, Has Beens, Ifs

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• Hitchcock was such a master of putting on screen things that made you uneasy. Somebody once asked him what frightened him most, and he said the police. He came from a poor background. I think he understood those fears.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Police, Poor

  "OSCARS Q&A: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 30, 2012.

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• I've always been frightened of karaoke, so I've never tried it. Karaoke scares the hell out of me!

  Johnny Depp

  Scare, Karaoke, Hell

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• Apparently God makes us all different. Some of us are happy to respond to His individual touch on our lives by remaining individuals, and others of us are intimidated or frightened into trying to become like each other so that we have company, so that we don't feel so lonely.

  Larry Norman

  Lonely, Trying, Different

  Interview with Don Gillespie, www.larrynorman.uk.com. 1980.

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• I had a very real fear of spiders until one bit me. I got bitten by a redback spider in Australia and I've never been frightened of them since. Maybe I've turned into Spider-man.

  Ray Winstone

  Real, Men, Australia

  "Ray Winstone: My daughters are geezer birds". Interview with Paula Kerr, www.mirror.co.uk. December 7, 2008.

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• Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic. It says, "Nobody cares and you have to look out for yourself and if you don't, you'll die." These two things work against each other. I think most kids are very frightened of their parents, and that's what all fairy tales reflect: Parents will fail you and you'll be left on your own. But, of course, everything comes out right in the end and the parents take you back.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Two

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it's about time you showed up around here.' I wanted to detach him from her, but first I had to sit through about ten minutes of her. She was my sister, but you don't tell women things like I wanted to tell him. I don't know why, but you don't. You tell them the things you have under control; the things that you're frightened of, you tell other men if you tell anyone.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Men, Doors

  Cornell Woolrich (1943). “I wouldn't be in your shoes”

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• The average performer stops when they face fear. Iconic producer accelerates once they get frightened.

  Robin Sharma

  Fear, Average, Faces

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• After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Strong, Fear, Breathing

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• That is why in adult life, people generally tend to relive rather than live, that is, to repeat the patterns of the past and defend the primary fantasy in the defiance, and avoid the real gamble or real adventure of taking a chance on something new. They are afraid that if they really cry out, if they really ask, if they really scream for help, that it won't come, and they'll be in the same panicky frightened state they were in when they were little.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Fear, Real, Adventure

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• I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we all do, think, What if this plane goes down? And I think, Well, if I'm holding the hand of the person sitting next to me, then I'm holding everyone's hand.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Hands, Flying

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

  Richard Flanagan

  Art, Men, Giving

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• When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

  Stephen Levine

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Stephen Levine (2009). “A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last”, p.21, Harmony

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• All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.

  Francis Brett Young

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.

  Chris Hedges

  People, Political, Forgotten

  "Thom Hartmann Talks to Chris Hedges About How Liberals Are a Useless Lot". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.thomhartmann.com. December 07, 2009.

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• The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.

  Evan Harris

  Perseverance, Long, Outcomes

  Evan Harris (2004). “The Art of Quitting: When Enough is Enough”, Barrons Educational Series Incorporated

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• Certainly, a gallery has to sell your work, so they'll be very frightened of you doing anything too different, and that can be difficult, but they can also recognize the need to change. Usually, if you just go and do it, and other people like it, it will still get recognized.

  Catherine Yass

  People, Different, Needs

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• Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

  Friedrich Engels

  Order, People, Useless

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Sleep, Men, Guy

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• With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.

  Michael Parenti

  Mass Destruction, Leader, Drug

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• I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, Prisoner, Felt

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• Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

  Julia Sawalha

  Parent, Feelings, Losing

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• I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again.

  Lefty Gomez

  Eye, Yankees, Glasses

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• My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

  Bruno Latour

  Sleep, People, Climate

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• Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

  Paul Mazursky

  Stars, Actors, Bigger

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