“You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.”
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“Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.”
“I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.”
“Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been, and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.”
“Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.”
“The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.”
“I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.”
“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.”
“We must travel in the direction of our fear.”
“Fear attracts attack.”
“Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.”
“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.”
“I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.”
“Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.”
“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.”
“My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.”
“You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.”
“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”
“When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.”
“Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.”
“We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”
“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”
“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.”
“When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.”