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• The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, People, Perfect

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• Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.

  Pat Robertson

  Stupid, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

  Pat Robertson

  Stupid, Kissing, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  Gary Ross

  Generations, Eras, Nostalgia

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. October 21, 1998.

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• The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.

  Joseph Rotblat

  War, Cuban Missile Crisis, October

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris

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• There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.

  Eli Roth

  Knowing, Judging, Cameras

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teens, Aliens

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• When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Math, Giving

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• People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Thinking, Israel, Media

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• This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Careers, Conducting, International

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• There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

  Howard Schultz

  Wind, Safety, Energy

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• I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and Fringe allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

  Jill Scott

  Thinking, People, Imagination

  "Jill Scott Talks FRINGE, Why She Wanted the Role, Hopes for Her Character, Being Part of the Final Season, Working with the Cast and Future Guest Spots". Interview with Kelly L. Carter, collider.com. September 3, 2013.

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• I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Fairy Tale, Found, Tales

  www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

  Michael Sheen

  People, Acting, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Midnight, Needs, Spectre

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.345, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Running, Memories, Fall

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• Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.

  Brooke Shields

  Confidence, Eight, Growth

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• I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

  Grace Slick

  Thinking, People, Old People

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• Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Vanity, Cells

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Film, Driven

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• I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.

  Britney Spears

  Love Life, Found, Impressive

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• My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dad, Lying, Heart

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• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspiring, Fear, Dangerous

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Father, Mean, Divorced

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• Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Girl, Scare, Groups

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