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• When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

  Aaron McGruder

  Important, News, Stories

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• If something scares me then I feel like I have to do it.

  Barb Honchak

  Mma, Feels, Ifs

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• We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist scare tactics and 'predictions' that have already been planned to come true.

  Mae Brussell

  Agency, Media, Scare Tactics

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• I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Giving

  "Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End". Daily Telegram #2159 (syndicated column) on July 05, 1933. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• Vanitas vanitatum has rung in the ears Of gentle and simple for thousands of years; The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scare Either simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

  Frederick Locker-Lampson

  Simple, Vanity, Years

  Frederick Locker-Lampson (1874). “London Lyrics”, p.32

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• I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Middle East, Warfare

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• It is much easier and safer to scare someone into submission than to beat them into submission.

  Rory Miller

  Submission, Self Defense, Easier

  Rory Miller (2014). “Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected”, p.121, YMAA Publication Center, Inc.

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• Set goals that are BOLD enough to scare you, but inspiring and exciting enough for you to commit 100% to!

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Goal, Enough

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Aug 10, 2010

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• You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

  Gregory Peck

  Dream, Disappointment, Thinking

  "The ArtSlut's Guide to Makin' It - As a Visual Artist". Book by Barb Benson, 2007.

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• Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.

  Gina Philips

  Jumping, Hair, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is The Exorcist. It still scares the living hell out of me, and it’s because of the fantasy element. It’s the exorcism. It’s the Devil. It’s not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don’t do it for me, and I don’t call them horror.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Cutting, Guy, House

  "In the Halloween Queen’s Court: A Conversation with Elvira, aka Cassandra Peterson". Interview with Dan Lybarger, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

  Michael Shannon

  People, Acting, Able

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• I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

  Yohan Blake

  Running, Athlete, Needs

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• There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Kids, Night, Scary

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

  Lena Dunham

  Brave, Kind Of Girl

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.113, Random House

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• It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Fall, Brave

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.113, Random House

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• When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

  Calvin Trillin

  Knowing, People, Age

  Calvin Trillin (2011). “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff”, p.21, Random House

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• The scare quotes burn off like fog.

  Ben Lerner

  Fog

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• I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

  Randall Wallace

  Ideas, Knowing, Trying

  Randall Wallace (2001). “Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In”, Hyperion

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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• Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

  Emmanuelle Vaugier

  Shining, Things I Love, Daylight

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• Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Moving, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Mean, Insecure

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• I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

  Louis L'Amour

  Matter, Faces, Anticipation

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The First Fast Draw: A Novel”, p.85, Bantam

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