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• If it doesn’t scare you, you’re probably not dreaming big enough.

  Tory Burch

  Dream, Enough, Bigs

  "Remarks to Babson College" by Tory Burch, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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• You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you.

  Carlo Gambino

  Strong, Smart, Lions

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• My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Gratitude

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

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• Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

  Taylor Swift

  Fearless, Absence, Spite

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• ...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

  David Archuleta

  Fear, Realizing, Great Things

  David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.13, Penguin

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• You want to take me to a movie?" I asked. "Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.

  Sarah Dessen

  Relationship, Girlfriend, Want

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.183, Penguin

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• So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fear, Rebel, Want

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Mar 21, 2015

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• I tend to scare myself.

  Stephen King

  Fear

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• Laughter scares off lust.

  Mason Cooley

  Laughter, Lust

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• I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow and do things that do scare me. I want to work with filmmakers who will help me go deeper in my work.

  Hilary Swank

  Looks, Want, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you want to make real money, do something that scares the crap out of 99% of the population, and only one person in a couple of hundred is physically capable of.

  Charlie Kelly

  Couple, Real, Population

  Source: ride.io

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• Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.

  Jason Blum

  Scary, Elements, World

  "Producer Jason Blum on The Lazarus Effect, Paranormal Activity, and loving horror". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2015.

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• Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God. You can scare people into coming to your church, you can scare people into trying to be good, you can scare people into giving money, you can even scare them into walking down an aisle and praying a certain prayer, but you cannot scare people into loving God. You just can’t do it.

  Matt Chandler

  Prayer, Giving Money, People

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

  Adam Lambert

  Sexy, Ifs

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• When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
  He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
  But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail,
  For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Pride, Female

  "The Female of the Species" st. 1 (1911)

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• Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

  Mark Twain

  Love You, Inspiration, Enemy

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• I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hate, Believe, Past

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Lisa Liebman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March, 1992.

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• That’s what scares me, Gideon. You don’t know what you’re worth.” “Actually, I do. Twelve bill—” “Shut up.

  Sylvia Day

  Twelve, Gideon, Bills

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.261, Penguin

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• How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Men, Wrath

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.190, Hamilton Books

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• It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music especially. Because I kinda go, I know a lot of us, and we don't know jack about anything. Not that I don't want you to buy our records and come to our concerts. I sure do. But you should come for entertainment. If you really want spiritual nourishment, you should go to church... you should read the Scriptures.

  Rich Mullins

  Christian, Spiritual, Thinking

  Concert in Lufkin, Texas, www.kidbrothers.net. July 19, 1997.

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• It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.

  Vincent Price

  Fun, Halloween, Scared

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• Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want, Invisible Monsters, What You Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

  Pat Robertson

  Zero, People, Tolerance

  "Liberals pride themselves on being tolerant. Are they really just suckers?" by Sally Kohn, www.washingtonpost.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

  Rita Rudner

  Witty, Children, Parenting

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