Terrified Quotes - Page 5

• If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

  Newt Gingrich

  Political, Ignorant, Empires

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• The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way.

  Newt Gingrich

  Islam, Way, Serious

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• I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

  Bear Grylls

  Sweat, People, Sitting Down

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• I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining, I was terrified - I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Sleep, Shining, Watches

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• I'm terrified of losing my voice.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Voice, Losing

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• I'm terrified of performing live.

  Rashida Jones

  Performing, Performing Live

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• If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Men, Terror, Ifs

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• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Nice, Swimming

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• The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

  Annette Funicello

  Divorce, Mere

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• I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

  Chris Evans

  America, Decision, Captains

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• Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

  Sara Blakely

  Stage

  "Sara Blakely: a woman with a great grasp of figures" by Zoe Wood, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

  David Brinkley

  Television, Way, News

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

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• People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

  Margaret Cho

  Nice, People, Knows

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• The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

  Laura Linney

  Silence, Entertainment, Industry

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• I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

  Adam Levine

  Independent

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• A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.

  Amy Chua

  Gratitude, Children, Kids

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• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Voice, Directors

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• I almost exclusively wear skinny jeans. I'm terrified of any other cut of denim.

  Lauren Conrad

  Cutting, Jeans, Denim

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• Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cancer, Scary, Dying

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• There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like Transformers, and he's f***ed. There's no way for him to exist in that world... Lars Von Trier's dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Going To Work

  "Shia LaBeouf vows to have real sex in movie" by Max Nicholson, www.ign.com. August 20, 2012.

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• Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

  Milan Kundera

  Success, Fall, Voice

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• As always at these times when he felt really in need of God the front of his mind was serene, but the deeper part, where faith did constant battle with doubt, was terrified that there would be no answer.

  Stephen King

  Doubt, Mind, Battle

  Stephen King (2016). “Desperation”, p.359, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too.

  Neil Gaiman

  Real, Scared, Sometimes

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.115, A&C Black

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• We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Soccer, Art, Writing

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.

  Rumi

  Dream, Glasses, Sea

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