- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear Quotes
Fear fades fastest when it's named directly.
This collection pairs personal courage with public conviction - resolve around national security, wariness of concentrated institutional power, and the belief that a government secure in itself should welcome, not dread, criticism. Related reading in Fearless Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Bold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republicans galvanize their base by inciting a lot of fear; they operate on a lot of mythmaking. So we have to have something compelling. We shouldn't be afraid to be bold.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not afraid and these 15 days convinced me there is nothing to fear. Let them be afraid instead.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during times of great stress and tragedy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a crazy fan of movies like 'The Wild Bunch' or 'Wages of Fear,' where you're rooting for the bad guys.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad guy in any good storytelling is always, in some weird way, a mirror for your hero's journey and for the challenges that they are facing and is some weird physical externalization of that fear that the character is holding onto and has to overcome.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
- Commercialism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
- Nov 07, 2020