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• The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

  Mary McDonnell

  Real, Knowing, Scary

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• The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

  Bill Bixby

  Years, Scary, Males

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• It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

  Gina Philips

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Scary, Desire, Cockroaches

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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.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Real, Giving, Scary

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• He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Real, Sky

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 8, 1925.

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• Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Eternal Life, Eternal

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• We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.

  David Foreman

  Insecure, Land, Rivers

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• If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

  Prince Philip

  Ebola, Wish, Viruses

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• Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.

  Pentti Linkola

  Years, Lasts, Should

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• We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

  Stewart Brand

  Technology, Garden, Age

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• Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

  David Foreman

  Race, Environmental, Earth

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• The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.

  Hal Riney

  Ideas, Creative, Tomorrow

  "Art & Copy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

  Jeff Tweedy

  People, Scary, Listening

  "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.

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• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Dream, Drug Use, Alcohol

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• The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be.
  Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Strength, Encouraging, Self Esteem

  Jonathan Huie, Mary Anne Radmacher (2009). “Simply An Inspired Life: Consciously Choosing Unbounded Happiness in Good Times & Bad”, p.3, Conari Press

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• It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

  Alva Myrdal

  Country, Men, Years

  Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.

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• Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

  Candice Bergen

  Beauty, Giving, Scary

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• Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

  James A. Baldwin

  Liberty, Affliction, Crutches

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• It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

  W. H. Auden

  America, Scary, Too Much

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• The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

  Doris Day

  Birthday, Women, Memorable

  Quoted in A E Hotchner Doris Day (1978).

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• Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

  Lorna Luft

  Scary, Chaos, Exhausting

  "How to Find the Gifts in Chaos" by Matthew B. James, Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2015.

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• How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

  Maya Lin

  Children, Home, Artist

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• Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.

  Ann Coulter

  Scary, Answers, Literature

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.160, Crown Forum

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