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• I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Boys, Years, Patches

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• But if I lost you, it would devastate me as nothing else has or ever could. You have so much power over me and that’s frightening.

  Maya Banks

  Lost, Lost You, Ifs

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• Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reality, Craziness, Shameful

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Cat's Eye”, p.443, Anchor

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• It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.

  Betty Friedan

  Motivational, Strength, Freedom

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.

  Thomas Sowell

  Loss, Choices, Voting

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• All my life I've worked and I was so lucky to go from a radio station in Washington to the Dodgers and of course, it never stopped. For me to suddenly put the key in the ignition and turn the engine off, it's kind of a frightening thought. I put the key in and left it there, God willing, for another year.

  Vin Scully

  Keys, Years, Lucky

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• It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

  Terence McKenna

  Fall, People, Matter

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• We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality of our knowledge. Faith means to believe in something 100% without a doubt, and to doubt our own knowledge can seem like the most frightening thing that can happen to us.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Believe, Mean, Doubt

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me right now.

  Cary Fukunaga

  New York, Skills, Ideas

  Interview with Michael Moore, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.

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• I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

  Dylan McDermott

  Baby, Ideas, Devil

  Source: collider.com

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• I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.173, Beacon Press

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• For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Scary, Dramatic, Psychological

  Source: collider.com

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• When the musician starts improvising, he never can go back to what he did last Sunday. That's what's frightening to a lot of people who can't let themselves go. But it's also very invigorating and very releasing because it opens you up to be yourself.

  Cecil Williams

  Being Yourself, Sunday, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.

  Tori Amos

  Beautiful, Sometimes, Demon

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• The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.

  Tove Jansson

  Circles, Darkness, Lamps

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• How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Children, Hate, Healing

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• Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Sadness, My Own

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• Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Father, Black And White

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• I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home.

  Tammara Webber

  Home, Eye, Night

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• The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Killers, Way, Serious

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  I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Love, Friendship, Father

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• Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

  Og Mandino

  Memorable, Giving, Accomplishment

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• The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man. There is no doubt that from the time humanity began to think it has occupied itself with the problem of its origin and its future which undoubtedly is the problem of life. The inability of science to solve it is absolute. This would be truly frightening were it not for faith.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Faith, Science, Men

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• Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Appreciation, Attitude, Heart

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• The Buddha taught some people the teachings of duality that help them avoid sin and acquire spiritual merit. To others he taught non-duality, that some find profoundly frightening.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Teaching

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