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• I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

  Ezra Miller

  Way, Moments, Share

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• Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Fear, Coward

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

  Erin Wasson

  Boredom, Height, Speed

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• I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.

  Mark Consuelos

  Dark, Space, House

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• Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters are the automobiles. Others talk about stories that are "plot-driven," as if the plot were neither the highway nor the automobile, but the chauffeur. Others seem to have plot phobia and say they never plot. Still others turn up their noses at the very notion, as if there's something artificial, fraudulent, contrived.

  James N. Frey

  Character, Writing, Interesting

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• Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely you've got a phobia or two. What scares you?" Alec thought for a moment. "Spiders," he said. Clary turned to Luke. "Have you got a spider anywhere?" Luke looked exasperated. "Why would I have a spider? Do I look like someone who would collect them?" No offense," Jace said, "but you kind of do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eyebrows, Two, Scare

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.679, Simon and Schuster

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• In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not really terrorists at all, just good folks trying to liberate people from technology and fight against an American government/corporation trying to coopt our souls. The inherent racism and Buddhist-phobia in the story plays into the present demonizing of Islam - and of our loss of knowledge about the great, spiritual history of the Sufis, for example, or the cultural heritage from the middle east.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, War

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

  Morgan Freeman

  Hate, Scared, I Hate

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• All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for the world. Fear is useless; it just gets in the way of accomplishing everything Overcome fear today and and confront one of your phobias.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Overcoming, Done

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.355, Macmillan

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• A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

  Stephen Colbert

  Greatest Fear, What If, Aging

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2012

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• I hear a lot of talk today about xenophobia. Is it really phobia if you have something to be afraid of?

  Bill Maher

  Xenophobia, Today, Ifs

  "Bill Maher Questions Xenophobia: 'Is It Really a Phobia If You Have Something To Be Afraid Of?'". Interview With Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 26, 2016.

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• I have one phobia, snakes. And by snakes I mean intimacy.

  Dana Gould

  Mean, Snakes, Intimacy

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Aug 13, 2013

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• I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias. I think many kids have those phobias, but I probably had more than most.

  Steven Spielberg

  Kids, Thinking, Space

  "Hollywood's master storyteller". www.cnn.com.

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• The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.

  Gordon Allport

  Dog, Offering, Long

  "A Psychological Interpretation". Book by Gordon Allport, p. 199, 1938.

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• You love fear. The ending of fear is death, and you don't want that to happen. I am not talking of wiping out the phobias of the body. They are necessary for survival. The death of fear is the only death.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Talking, Survival, Wiping Out

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• I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Knives, Needles

  "What I see in the mirror" by Jasmine Guinness, www.theguardian.com. January 05, 2008.

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• You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?

  Neil Gaiman

  Silly, Thinking, Bird

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• The alternative which I favor is to renounce all euphemisms and grasp the nettle of the word atheism itself, precisely because it is a taboo word carrying frissons of hysterical phobia. Critical mass may be harder to achieve than with some non-confrontational euphemism, but if we did achieve it with the dread word atheist, the political impact would be all the greater.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Impact, Political

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• As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.

  Beth Ditto

  Life Is Short, Flying, Doe

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2008.

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• I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.

  Warren Zevon

  Errors, Years, Physicians

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• I have three phobias ...: I hate going to bed, get up and hate hate being alone.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Hate, Bed, Three

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• I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open doors.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Hate, Doors, Darkness

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.169, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Courage is not the absence of fear...

  Richard Stengel

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

  "Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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• The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Motivation

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

  James Neil Hollingworth

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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