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• When I see guys huddling up after the game, to pray, that’s what scares me about the game. I’m a Baptist, but I’m also a quarterback killer, and I ain’t praying with you. But I will give you 30 seconds to ask your Lord and master to keep me from killing you.

  Deacon Jones

  Games, Giving, Guy

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• You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you.

  Carlo Gambino

  Strong, Smart, Lions

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• Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn’t exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Writing, People, Wish

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• We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

  Pema Chodron

  Choices, Circumstances, Resentful

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Overcoming Fear, Facing Fear

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 16, 2012

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• Ive never seen a more terrifying film than 'The Bababook'. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.

  William Friedkin

  Film, Hell

  "William Friedkin on why he is beating the drum for 'The Babadook'" by Richard Rushfield, December 9, 2014.

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• Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.

  David Letterman

  Book, Trying, President

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• When we’re courageous enough to be with what scares us, we can awaken our intuition and
  create a new path for healing.

  Kris Carr

  Healing, Intuition, Path

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Apr 10, 2014

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

  Mark Twain

  Love You, Inspiration, Enemy

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• Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God. You can scare people into coming to your church, you can scare people into trying to be good, you can scare people into giving money, you can even scare them into walking down an aisle and praying a certain prayer, but you cannot scare people into loving God. You just can’t do it.

  Matt Chandler

  Prayer, Giving Money, People

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• If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

  Adam Lambert

  Sexy, Ifs

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• Horror is great storytelling with scary elements on top of it, but if you don't have great storytelling, you can have all the scares in the world, but the movie won't work.

  Jason Blum

  Scary, Elements, World

  "Producer Jason Blum on The Lazarus Effect, Paranormal Activity, and loving horror". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2015.

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• When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
  He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
  But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail,
  For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Women, Pride, Female

  "The Female of the Species" st. 1 (1911)

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• If you want to make real money, do something that scares the crap out of 99% of the population, and only one person in a couple of hundred is physically capable of.

  Charlie Kelly

  Couple, Real, Population

  Source: ride.io

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• I believe I am quite amiable and affable and quite fair, and I've rarely worked with people who are the opposite. Moodiness scares me. What gets to me is unkindness. Madness. Unwarranted cruelty through words. People who scream and shout at work. I hate confrontation and violence. I've done it in the past and I don't want to do it again. I guess I want a perfect world.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hate, Believe, Past

  "New Again: Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Lisa Liebman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March, 1992.

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• I look at some of my work and say, "Oh, that's where I can be better." I want to continue to grow and do things that do scare me. I want to work with filmmakers who will help me go deeper in my work.

  Hilary Swank

  Looks, Want, Helping

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Laughter scares off lust.

  Mason Cooley

  Laughter, Lust

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• I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.

  Pat Robertson

  Zero, People, Tolerance

  "Liberals pride themselves on being tolerant. Are they really just suckers?" by Sally Kohn, www.washingtonpost.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

  Rita Rudner

  Witty, Children, Parenting

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• Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want, Invisible Monsters, What You Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.

  Vincent Price

  Fun, Halloween, Scared

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• To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.

  Frederick Buechner

  Journey, Half, Alive

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

  John Steinbeck

  Children, Men, Wrath

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.190, Hamilton Books

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• That’s what scares me, Gideon. You don’t know what you’re worth.” “Actually, I do. Twelve bill—” “Shut up.

  Sylvia Day

  Twelve, Gideon, Bills

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.261, Penguin

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