Scare Quotes - Page 18

• If I were directing a movie, it would scare me.

  Seth Rogen

  Ifs

  "Seth Rogen, Jennifer Jason Leigh on Challenges of ‘Steve Jobs,’ ‘The Hateful Eight’". Interview with Jennifer Jason Leigh, variety.com. December 29, 2015.

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• Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

  Bruce Schneier

  Real, Successful, Air

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• It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, People, Enemy

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.

  Steven Weber

  Smart, Commitment, Space

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• There is still such a thing as subversive. Subversive makes hip people nervous. It's something new that scares you in a good way. I mean, subversive to me is a compliment. Subversive is something that influences people to do something against society that they haven't thought of before.

  John Waters

  Mean, People, Way

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go. Whether it's going out and auditioning for the play or trying out for the basketball team, you have to explore your boundaries and see where you really want to go and the only way you can do that is to break out of your shell.

  Zac Efron

  Basketball, Team, Play

  "EXCLUSIVE: Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens Sing Their Praises for High School Musical". Movieweb Interview, movieweb.com. May 22, 2006.

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• Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

  Bobby Seale

  Wings, People, Giving

  "Bobby Seale, Still Revolutionary". Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. July 20, 2008.

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• A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.

  Fede Alvarez

  Thinking, Blood, Stories

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• As an individual, as a household, you can't spend more money than you're bringing in. You can do it for a little while, but you end up going broke and you end up losing everything you have. That is the path that we're on as a country, and it scares me to death.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Country, Losing Everything, Littles

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 21, 2012.

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• Someone told me that each equation I included in my book would halve the sales. I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = MC squared. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers.

  Stephen Hawking

  Book, Half, Reader

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• All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, War, Rain

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• The media treats fear like a one-night stand. They jump on it and then they leave the next day and they forget - remember the Alar Scare? Things - see, nobody even remembers Alar.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Night, Next Day, Media

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the horses, do what you want. And I absolutely believe that.

  Joan Rivers

  Horse, Believe, Two

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people. ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan.

  Andrew Garfield

  People, Fans, Rubbish

  "Andrew Garfield back on screen, and Comic-Con, as Spidey". The Associated Press Interview, www.denverpost.com. July 26, 2013.

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• It sucks when you read the script and you're like, "No, I liked that guy!" It's hard to read through the scripts sometimes, and just hope that people you like aren't gone. It scares you.

  Devon Bostick

  People, Guy, Gone

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always doing things that scare me, because I feel like that's how you should live life. If I'm terrified - and I'm often terrified - then I should be doing that. Like trapeze class, or singing in front of 5,000 people.

  Felicia Day

  Live Life, People, Singing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.

  Bruce Schneier

  Children, Government, Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

  "Computer Crime Hype". www.schneier.com. December 16, 2005.

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• George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

  Adam Levine

  Dark

  "Voices for Charge". Rolling Stone, October 14, 2004.

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• I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.

  Demi Lovato

  Growing Up, Getting Older, Want

  "Demi Lovato, at 19, takes control of her own life". Interview with The Associated Press, www.dailyfreeman.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Men, House

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• The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

  Amy Hempel

  Baby, Men, Should

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want to scare anybody here but we just received word from police that Howard Dean is loose and may be armed with a microphone.

  Craig Kilborn

  Police, May, Want

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• My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.

  Bear Grylls

  Motivational, Education, Life Lesson

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• I was a teenager, we were pretty much fully indoctrinated, thanks to sexual scare tactics. I remember so many public-health commercials with a B-actor in a fake alley background warning us to use protection or telling us the only real safe choice was abstinence. We were highly frightened of sex from day one. There was no free-swinging '90s.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Real, Teenager

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, the slower burn is a deeper and more effective scare. But I only like those kinds of scares when they're really earned. I don't like false scares.

  C. Robert Cargill

  Kind, Deeper

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