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• Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Beautiful, Scary, Path

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• It began as this desire to do this science fiction movie about perhaps one of the last insects left that nobody's done anything on, which is the cockroach - and truly one of the most frightening insects.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Scary, Desire, Cockroaches

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• The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

  Bill Bixby

  Years, Scary, Males

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• It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

  Don Henley

  Breakup, Careers, Scary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

  Rory Bremner

  Scary, Reassurance, Figures

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• He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Real, Sky

  "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter 8, 1925.

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• Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Eternal Life, Eternal

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• If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

  Prince Philip

  Ebola, Wish, Viruses

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• Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.

  Pentti Linkola

  Years, Lasts, Should

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• We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion-guilt-free at last!

  Stewart Brand

  Technology, Garden, Age

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• We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.

  David Foreman

  Insecure, Land, Rivers

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• Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

  David Foreman

  Race, Environmental, Earth

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• The frightening and most difficult thing about being what somebody calls a creative person is that you have absolutely no idea where any of your thoughts come from, really. And especially, you don't have any idea about where they're going to come from tomorrow.

  Hal Riney

  Ideas, Creative, Tomorrow

  "Art & Copy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

  Jeff Tweedy

  People, Scary, Listening

  "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.

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• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  M. C. Escher

  Dream, Drug Use, Alcohol

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• The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

  Doris Day

  Birthday, Women, Memorable

  Quoted in A E Hotchner Doris Day (1978).

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• The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

  Brooke Shields

  Perspective, Priorities, Scary

  "Battle to Replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Begins". "Paula Zahn Now", edition.cnn.com. July 1, 2005.

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• It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

  W. H. Auden

  America, Scary, Too Much

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• However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Children, Home, Parent

  Robert Neelly Bellah (1985). “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life”, p.58, Univ of California Press

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• Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

  Lorna Luft

  Scary, Chaos, Exhausting

  "How to Find the Gifts in Chaos" by Matthew B. James, Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2015.

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• A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

  Julie Burchill

  Fun, Independent, Men

  "International Women’s Day Quotes: 16 Inspirational Feminist Quotes for IWD 2017". metro.co.uk. March 06, 2017.

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• To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

  Randall Jarrell

  Scary, Manners

  'Pictures from an Institution' (1954) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

  Wilfred Burchett

  War, Islands, Years

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• How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

  Maya Lin

  Children, Home, Artist

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