Frightening Quotes - Page 11

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  Magic Johnson

  Play, Guy, Bird

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as violent and chaotic. It is useful for them.

  Howard Zinn

  Ideas, People, Doubt

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

  Maurice Sendak

  Wild Things, Wanted

  "The Art of Maurice Sendak". Book by Selma G. Lanes, 1980.

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• To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Likes, Life Is, Frightened

  Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.316, Univ of California Press

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• I've heard some of Victoria's new album and it's frightening.

  David Beckham

  Albums, Heard, Victoria

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• The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving Money, People, Church

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• If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Children, Spring, Pride

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• It takes twenty or so years before a mother can know with any certainty how effective her theories have been--and even then thereare surprises. The daily newspapers raise the most frightening questions of all for a mother of sons: Could my once sweet babes ever become violent men? Are my sons really who I think they are?

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Sweet, Son

  Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Wall, Creativity

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• We also have people dying longer, we are able to keep people alive without much quality of life in many cases. We haven't done a great job of making healthspan match up with lifespan, which is both miserable and unbelievably costly - and frightening.

  Ken Dychtwald

  Life, Jobs, People

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• All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Publishing House, Self

  "Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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• At the same time, old confrontations have taken on frightening urgency, especially the India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir and the violent stalemate in the Middle East. Progress on these and other global challenges requires us to develop a larger strategy for American foreign policy, rooted in a fundamental commitment to move the world from interdependence to an integrated global community committed to peace and prosperity, freedom and security.

  William J. Clinton

  Peace, Moving, Taken

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• The critics and the reviewers are more frightening than anything else!

  Ayana Mathis

  Critics, Reviewers

  "Twelve Tribes of Hattie Author Ayana Mathis Talks Fiction, Family, and (Sometimes) Faking It". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Socially, hip-hop has done more for racial camaraderie in this country than any one thing. 'Cause guys like me, my kids - everyone under 45 either grew up loving hip-hop or hating hip-hop, but everyone under 45 grew up very aware of hip-hop. So when you're a white kid and you're listening to this music and you're being exposed to it every day on MTV, black people become less frightening. This is just a reality. What hip-hop has done bringing people together is enormous.

  Michael Rapaport

  Country, Hate, Kids

  "Actor Michael Rapaport’s Rap Quest". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. July 01, 2011.

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• I've always been an admirer of women who walk the line of being very feminine and powerful at the same time. That has always been my archetype because too many powerful women, I fend intimidating and frightening, and I never want to scare anybody. I want to be warm and cuddly and yet, powerful at the same time.

  Doreen Virtue

  Powerful, Scare, Lines

  "Doreen Virtue: the oil spill". Interview with Susan Gregg, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The unknown is the most frightening and mysterious thing, especially in the modern world where we can practically Google anything and find out the back story. I think to have that element of mystery it almost creates a frustration that is closer to real life.

  Larry Fessenden

  Real, Thinking, Frustration

  "Interview with 'Beneath' director Larry Fessenden". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

  Boris Johnson

  Dark, Humanity, Age

  "London Mayor Boris Johnson: 'We Can't Leave Europe, We're Part of the Continent'". Interview with Thomas Hüetlin, Christoph Scheuermann, www.spiegel.de. August 12, 2015.

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• There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.

  Bob Herbert

  War, Dark, America

  Bob Herbert (2007). “Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream”, p.275, Macmillan

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• What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.

  Tilda Swinton

  Children, Emotional, Ideas

  Source: movieweb.com

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• It's a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You've got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I'm still trying to separate how I see myself from how I'm perceived. It's not easy, but it's worth it.

  Carly Pope

  Thinking, Trying, Opinion

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• When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.

  John H Richardson

  Animal, Simple, Dying

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The cavalier casual way that Donald Trump talks about nuclear weapons is not only frightening but it goes counter to more than 70 years of bipartisan, presidential leadership of Republicans and Democrats who believed that we have to prevent other countries from getting nuclear weapons and we have to do what we can to decrease the number of nuclear weapons in the world.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Numbers, Years

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Politicians have made up their own version of Islam to avoid having to deal with the reality of Islam because it's just too daunting, frightening, scary, whatever, and they don't want to deal with it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Reality, Scary, Islam

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Comedy is frightening at first because you're opening yourself up. When it's just you and people hate it, you're like, "Oh God. Do they hate me?"

  Colin Jost

  Hate, People, Firsts

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Parents are already telling their kids about falling in love online - there's nothing "frightening" or "dystopian" about this. So, the critique doesn't work, because we already consider our dystopic state of affairs normal.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Falling In Love, Kids, Parent

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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