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• Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jobs, Mean, Odds

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• With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey.

  SebastiAn

  Fall, Journey, Heartache

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• That's the real excellent scary part, that feeling, and that feeling won't come if the lady from next door is there and your mom won't ride the ride, because what brings on that feeling most is when your mom rides wedged in tight with you and your brother on nights like this, when your mom will scream the excellent scream, the scream that people you see in snatches on the boardwalk stop and stare for, the scream that stops the ride next door, the scream that tells us to our hearts the bolts have finally broken.

  Mark Richard

  Mom, Brother, Real

  Mark Richard (2013). “The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories”, p.54, Anchor

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• It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from sort of white suburban moms who, all of a sudden, their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, their schools aren't quite as good as they thought they were. And that's pretty scary.

  Arne Duncan

  Mom, Children, School

  "Duncan Apologizes For 'Clumsy' Common Core Remarks". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. Eric Westervelt.

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• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  Frances McDormand

  Theatre, Actors, Debt

  "'I'd love to play a psycho killer'". Interview with Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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• Politicians who do not use the Bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office.

  Beverly LaHaye

  Christian Values, Office, Use

  "Watch the Right: The Amazing Rise of Beverly LaHaye" by Connie Page (Ms. magazine), February 1987.

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• Love me or hate me, Scary Spice is back.

  Melanie Brown

  Hate, Spices, Love Me Or Hate Me

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

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• What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

  Leonard Sweet

  Simple, Differences, Doe

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• Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

  Leonard Sweet

  Simple, Don't Change, Stagnation

  Leonard Sweet (2001). “SoulTsunami: Sink Or Swim in New Millennium Culture”, p.73, Zondervan

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• Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!

  Fob James

  Wall, Lying, Fall

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• I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.

  Victoria Wood

  Writing, Pages, Firsts

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• My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

  James G. Watt

  Jesus, Responsibility, Land

  The Washington Post, May 24, 1981.

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• If there is one thing I've learned in thirty years as a psychotherapist, it is this: If you can let your experience happen, it will release its knots and unfold, leading to a deeper, more grounded experience of yourself. No matter how painful or scary your feelings appear to be, your willingness to engage with them draws forth your essential strength, leading in a more life-positive direction.

  John Welwood

  Love, Years, Feelings

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• There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

  Michael Connelly

  Men, Innocent Man, Guilt

  Michael Connelly (2011). “The Lincoln Lawyer Novels: The Lincoln Lawyer, The Brass Verdict, The Reversal”, Little, Brown

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• Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Writing, Important, Good Writing

  John Edgar Wideman, Bonnie TuSmith (1998). “Conversations with John Edgar Wideman”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Laughing, Comedy, Film

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• This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.

  Johnny Christ

  Past, Men, Way

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• She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most.

  Sandra Bullock

  Sad Life, Middle, Floats

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• In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

  Wilfred Burchett

  War, Islands, Years

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• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Hurt, Distance, Book

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

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• One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.

  Joey Dunlop

  Gun, Night, Two

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• You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

  Timothy West

  Hunting, Steps, Hunts

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• People are what are scary...people.

  Blackbeard

  Drama, People, Scary People

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• But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Monday, Father, Book

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Silly, Vegas, Gambling

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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