- Cool Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being Afraid Quotes
Facing fear, trust, and letting go
These being afraid quotes trace a shift from fearing failure to expecting it, and from guarding emotions to finally trusting other people. See Fear quotes for more on facing what scares us.
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- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite extraordinary and quite wonderful.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe now, instead of being afraid and saying, 'Look how hard Terry tried, and he still got cancer,' instead people will say, 'Look at the effort he put in, and he died of cancer. We're really going to have to try hard in order to beat it - harder than we ever have before.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women should be happy with their bodies. Not being afraid of yourself is very empowering.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with the idea that someone might hate you if they knew what religion you were; being afraid to open my mouth because my accent might make people think something about me. Or even if they didn't, would they understand me?
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
There can be no more burying our heads in the sand by being afraid to even mention the words 'climate change' aloud.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never forget the moment in class when I went from being afraid to fail, to expecting to fail. This informs everything I do.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.
- Another Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like I try to be different, but every single person is unique, and every single person has special things to offer, and it's about embracing it and not being afraid of the fact that maybe you're different or quirky, but it's okay to be different, and it can be a wonderful thing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020