Intimidating Quotes - Page 8

• The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: strength.

  Lorde

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children are without health insurance-when our colossal debt subjects our economic future to the whims of Asian bankers-no one can tell me that faith demands this Senate spend its time arguing over a handful of judges. No one with those priorities can use my faith to intimidate me.

  John F. Kerry

  Children, Believe, Judging

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• The devil isn’t a true lion; he just walks around roaring like one trying to intimidate the Body of Christ. But the truth is, he’s had his teeth pulled, and all he can do now is gum you.

  Andrew Wommack

  Trying, Devil, Roaring

  Andrew Wommack (2006). “You've Already Got It!: So Quit Trying to Get It”, p.120, Harrison House Publishers

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• Seafood on the grill can be intimidating if you don't know what you are doing. It's really quite easy

  Kevin Steele

  Easy, Culinary, Knows

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• The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to get people to stop investing in Iran, European companies pull out, China disregards it. You look at history and understand why - they've been around for 4,000 years, they have contempt for the barbarians, they just don't give a damn.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Iran, Years

  Interview with Robert Trivers, seedmagazine.com. September 06, 2006.

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• Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, People, Revealing

  "NSA whistleblower whereabouts reportedly unknown as authorities consider charges", www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2013.

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• If there is anything that I could get you to do, it would be to spend ten to fifteen minutes each morning planning your day. If I could get you to do that, you'd not only scare yourself, you'd intimidate everybody on your block.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Inspirational, Morning, Block

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• Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.

  Bette Midler

  Two, People, Groups

  Bette Midler (2014). “A View from A Broad”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Who I Am, Average, Littles

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• I realize Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods; he's intimidating.

  Keegan Bradley

  Woods, Realizing, Tigers

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• I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

  James Carville

  Baseball, Thinking, Political

  "Ideas & Trends: The Bondholders Are Winning; Why America Won't Boom" by Louis Uchitelle, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 1994.

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• I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.

  Torrie Wilson

  Giving, Crowds, Nervous

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• When you learn conflict-resolution skills in the playroom, you then practice them on the playground, and that in turn stays with you. If you have a combative sibling or a physically intimidating, older sibling, you learn a lot about how to deal with situations like that later in life. If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Dark, Later In Life

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• Life imitates art but art intimidates life.

  Dana Gould

  Art

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• I don't like to start anything, ever, but if they're going to try to intimidate me, I like to just stand there and say, 'Sorry, it ain't gonna happen.' I'm shy but I'm badass. I'm not shy in a timid way, just shy in a way that I'm not comfortable with people.

  Rosie Napravnik

  Sorry, Badass, People

  "Rosie Napravnik: 'I had a dream of winning the Derby on Shanghai Bobby'". Interview with Daniel Ross, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Believe, Self

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• We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."

  Barack Obama

  United States, News, Able

  Barack Obama's remarks in Year-End Press Conference in James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 19, 2014.

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• Whenever possible, I try to get a professional to do my makeup, because the idea of putting together a flawless look intimidates me. I like to be open to a makeup artist's ideas on the look they want to create, but I always ask to keep my foundation pretty lightweight and luminescent.

  Amanda Crew

  Artist, Makeup, Ideas

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Wings, Band, Crowds

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• I asked Shia: who is the guy that terrifies you the most? And he said Mads. So it was somebody we both really wanted to work with. He's intimidating, but has a really big heart and he's sexy. He's got this sexiness, even guys fall for him. He just penetrates everything-not literally. So we needed a brokenhearted thug that could really give us the heartache. And going between the violence and viciousness and the complete softness without making it too much. A lot of those characters can go into a charade, and I needed it to be genuine heartbrokenness and that's what he's great at doing.

  Fredrik Bond

  Sexy, Fall, Heart

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• Ralph Fiennes was a big hero of mine acting-wise growing up and while I was training. I just find him so watchable. He was playing this very intimidating character when we worked together and it certainly felt like he was in character off set as well! He was very cool. Before a scene, he'd be like, "Come on. Let's improvise. Let's just do stuff." But Jesus Christ. He's Ralph Fiennes!

  Jeremy Irvine

  Wise, Jesus, Growing Up

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• In Southern West Virginia we live in a war zone. Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes, poisoning us, trying to intimidate us. I don't mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. There ARE no jobs on a dead planet.

  Judy Bonds

  Jobs, War, Home

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• If anything, it's a little intimidating because there's usually a lot of brilliant work and a lot of brilliant ideas out there that you wish you had thought of, or that you just admire for the originality of it or the difference from what you've been thinking of.

  Chris Wedge

  Thinking, Ideas, Differences

  "Director Chris Wedge Talks EPIC, the Road to Finally Getting a Greenlight, the Oscars, Branching into Live-Action with MONSTER TRUCKS, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 15, 2013.

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• When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

  Robert Greene

  Powerful, Saying Less, People

  "The 48 Laws Of Power". Book by Robert Greene, 2010.

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• It's really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.

  Helena Christensen

  Beach, Goes On, Bikinis

  "Helena Christensen: 'Like Any Woman, I Worry About My Body'". Interview with Emma Sibbles, fashion.telegraph.co.uk. July 13, 2011.

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