Terrified Quotes - Page 17

• And I love the people there. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are cool. But I'm terrified of the next generation that takes over. A benevolent dictatorship is still a dictatorship. At some point people are going to realize that Google has everything on everyone. Most of all, they can see what questions you're asking, in real time. Quite literally, they can read your mind.

  Jacob Appelbaum

  Real, People, Google

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• Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Cute, People, Boredom

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• The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.

  Joanna Newsom

  Blue, Whales, Voice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People can smile even when terrified.

  Nisio Isin

  People

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• When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

  Suzy Welch

  Funny, Power, People

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• If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mistake, Acknowledge, Reluctant

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Simple, Natural Instinct

  William Faulkner (2011). “Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion”, p.420, Modern Library

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• Once I'm obsessed with somebody, I'm terrified of them instantly. I'm not scared of them - I'm scared of me and how I will react. Like, for instance, one time someone was introducing me to Bill Maher, and I saw Meryl Streep walk into the room, and I literally put my hand right in Bill Maher's face and said, "Not now, Bill!", and I just stared at Meryl Streep... I just creepily stared at her.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Hands, Bills

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that.

  Lady Gaga

  Baby, Thinking, Giving

  "Lady Gaga is 'terrified of babies'" by RealBollywood.com, www.imdb.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.

  Lady Gaga

  Creativity, Want, Mess

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• We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

  Sara Maitland

  Unique, Thinking, Special

  Sara Maitland, The School of Life (2014). “How to Be Alone”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• These entities are clever enough to make Strieber think they care about him. Yet his torment by them never ceases. Whatever his relationship to the entities, and he increasingly concludes that their involvement with him is something 'good,' he also remains terrified of them and uncertain as to what they are.

  John Ankerberg

  Clever, Thinking, Care

  John Ankerberg (1992). “The Facts on UFOs and Other Supernatural Phenomena”, Harvest House Pub

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• I was once that little boy
  Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour

  Lupe Fiasco

  Boys, Hip Hop, World

  Song: The Show Goes On, Album: Lasers, 2011

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• I mean, knowing people, people are terrified of the unknown and they want to just kill the unknown.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Knowing, People

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• Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.

  Guus Kuijer

  Laughter, Fear, Father

  Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm a good Canadian girl. I miss all that good stuff. I miss tobogganing and I miss snowboarding, but I've also learned to surf and I've become a water baby which I used to be relatively terrified of the water and I kayak all the time now and I'm able to run year round on the beach which you can't obviously do in Canada.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Girl, Running, Baby

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me.

  Troian Bellisario

  Girl, Brother, Grew Up

  Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

  Katy B

  Girl, Trying, Movement

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• I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

  Anne Carson

  Writing, Acceptance, Thinking

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• The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

  Chris Colfer

  Real, Gay, People

  "*Glee'*s Chris Colfer Wants to Show You His Ass". Interview with Brett Berk, www.vanityfair.com. April 27, 2010.

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• I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

  Daniel Clowes

  Thinking, Disappear, Dies

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

  Criss Angel

  Jobs, Fire, Snakes

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I'm terrified of bugs and I travel with sprays, lotions, potions; the lot. I have to check the room before I go to sleep and if I come across a bug and fail to remove it I have to sleep in a separate room as I'm paranoid that I'll be taken advantage of as I sleep.

  Freema Agyeman

  Taken, Sleep, Rooms

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• I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

  Susan Cain

  Speech, Firsts, Given

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

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