“Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.”
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“Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.”
“My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.”
“Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.”
“I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.”
“Respect and fear are two different things.”
“The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.”
“A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.”
“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.”
“The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.”
“There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.”
“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.”
“All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.”
“We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.”
“There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.”
“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.”
“He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.”
“People have a fear of the unknown. Insects have different senses than us, different amount of limbs and their body structure is very different. It's hard for us to really relate to them and understand them.”
“With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.”
“There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.”
“Americans have discovered fear.”
“I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.”
“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.”
“Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.”