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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
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It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
– Herodotus
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
– Sophocles
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
– Plato
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In the ring, I never really knew fear.
– Rocky Marciano
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In the '80s, I was putting out an album virtually every year, I think mostly based on fear - that if I didn't, people would soon forget about me.
– Al Yankovic
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In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.
– Andrew Mason
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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
– Xun Zi
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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
– Anna Jameson
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In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
– Elinor Wylie
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
– Natan Sharansky
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In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.
– Jonathan Sacks
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In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
– Cat Stevens
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If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
– Tori Amos
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If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.
– Sherri Shepherd
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If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.
– Rollo Armstrong
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If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.
– Brit Hume
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If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
– Billy Corgan
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I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.
– David Byrne
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
– Laura Marling
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I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
– Hugh Jackman
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I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
– Sting
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I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
– David Guetta
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I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
– Taylor Swift
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I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
– Florence Welch
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I'm always interested in trying to investigate different personalities. I want to keep myself guessing and keep the fear element alive, so that I don't get too comfortable.
– Michael Fassbender
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I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.
– Junior Seau
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I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.
– Sugar Ray Leonard
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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
– Jack Nicklaus
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I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.
– Kristen Wiig
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I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.
– Freida Pinto
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I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.
– Florence Welch
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I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.
– Audre Lorde
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I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
– Frank Ocean
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
– Calvin Klein
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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.
– Anne Lamott
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I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.
– Donald Cargill
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I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.
– Kristen Wiig
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
– T. S. Eliot
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
– J. K. Rowling
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I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.
– Hugh Jackman
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I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment.
– Michelle Pfeiffer
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
– Alan Cumming
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I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
– Diane Abbott
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I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read.
– Kesha
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I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
– Sara Blakely
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I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.
– Helen Reddy
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I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
– John B. S. Haldane
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I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.
– Thomas Friedman
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I think there's a lot projected on beautiful women, period. At least, maybe this is just my fear, but I do sometimes feel dismissed before I've even been allowed to participate. I have moments of feeling really wounded. But I am pretty optimistic, and I do enjoy a lot of my life.
– Shalom Harlow
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I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.
– Criss Angel
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I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.
– Laurell K. Hamilton
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I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.
– Anthony Kiedis
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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
– Julia Child
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I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.
– K. D. Lang
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
– Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context.
– Nicholas Hoult
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I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
– Scott Adams
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I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her.
– Olympia Dukakis
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I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
– Elia Kazan
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I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
– Camille Pissarro
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I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.
– Richard Trumka
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I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.
– Carly Simon
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
– Dean Koontz
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I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
– Martin Luther
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I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.
– Jeremy Renner
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I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
– Lynda Barry
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I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.
– Mary Tyler Moore
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I like to do something I fear.
– Heath Ledger
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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
– Haley Joel Osment
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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
– Julia Ward Howe
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I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
– Arabella Weir
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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
– Nikos Kazantzakis
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I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
– Taylor Swift
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I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.
– Eli Whitney
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
– Thomas Jefferson
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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.
– Dean Inge
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I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.
– Edvard Munch
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I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
– Steve Irwin
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I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
– Isabelle Adjani
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I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
– Natan Sharansky
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear knowing what must be done does away with fear.
– Rosa Parks
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I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.
– David Walliams
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I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.
– Jenny Eclair
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I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
– Lauryn Hill
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I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.
– David Duchovny
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I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.
– Graham Swift
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I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'
– Shawn Johnson
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
– Adele Brookman
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I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.
– Greg Kinnear
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
– James Joyce
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I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
– Robert Fulghum
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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.
– Vince Cable
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I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.
– Tommy Lee Jones
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I fear only God, all praises to Him.
– Muqtada al Sadr
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I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
– Hulk Hogan
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I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
– Bruce Lee
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
– H. P. Lovecraft
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