Scare Quotes - Page 8

• I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

  Phil Donahue

  Media, Population, Realizing

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 24, 2005.

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• I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.

  Robin Wasserman

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Thinking, Messages

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• I'm pretty sure Africa was made up by the media to scare people. I mean, I've never seen it. Have you? I didn't think so.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Thinking, Media

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• Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.

  Sara Blakely

  Assets, Knows

  "INSTANT MBA: 'If You Do Things Without Knowing How They've Always Been Done, You're Guaranteed To Do Them Differently'" by Patricia Laya, www.businessinsider.com. July 25, 2011.

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• I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.

  Allen Covert

  Summer, Kids, House

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• If youre going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If youre going to make a scary movie, scare people well.

  Andrew Bryniarski

  People, Scary, Wells

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• I am really easy to scare, and I dont enjoy watching spooky films.

  Kate Ashfield

  Film, Easy, Spooky

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• Do one thing every day that scares you... Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own... Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

  Mary Schmich

  Thinking, Past, Fishing

  "The greatest commencement speech ever" by Valerie Strauss, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2014.

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• A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

  Mary Schmich

  Believe, Lines, Columns

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.362, Agate Digital

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• If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Evil, Nihilism

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.128, Routledge

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• Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.

  Rob Lowe

  Opportunity, Saying Yes, Should

  Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• I can scare myself like a pro.

  Imogen Poots

  I Can

  Interview with Cary Fukunaga, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Horror Genre, Fans, Watches

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• The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

  Daymond John

  Moving, Taken, Next Week

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• It's easy to scare women. It's even profitable to scare women... But it's not nice, so let's stop it.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Nice, Easy, Profitable

  FaceBook post by Ina May Gaskin from May 04, 2014

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• If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things that scare you, things that intimidate you, things that hurt you, When you're humiliated, when you're rejected, you have to be able to take these bad experiences you have and turn them into a great dinner party joke.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Party, Thinking

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• You're not always going to hit the bull's-eye. I'm going to make movies that work and I'm going to make movies that don't work, and that's just a part of being creative. Because really, I think if you're taking risks and you're pushing yourself and you're doing things that scare you, you are going to fall on your face, and it's not always going to work.

  Hilary Swank

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Hands, Grace, Chaos

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• The smallest quantity of alcohol scares away novel ideas.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Ideas, Alcohol, Novel

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• I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Cancer, Numbers, Survival

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• That's what our training is for, we practice not panicking, we practice breathing, we practice looking directly at the thing that scares us until we stop flinching, we practice overriding our Can't.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Practice, Breathing, Training

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• If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Dream, Enough, Bigs

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• Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But to take my writing to a deeper level, I’ve found that a better practice is to simply write what frightens you, haunts you, even. I now keep a sign on the bulletin board in my office that reads: 'Write What Scares You.' I’ve learned that tapping into the hard stuff — whether it’s the fear of loss or a boogeyman lurking in childhood memories — is what ultimately gives a story the power to leap off the page and grab you by the collar.

  Sarah Jio

  Memories, Writing, Loss

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• Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

  Garth Brooks

  Mistake, Thinking, Games

  "Locked and Loaded". Interview with Kevin Freiberg, www.freibergs.com.

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