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" I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other. "

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" Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. "

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" We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond. "

" I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother. "

" I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe. "

" The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. "

" I've learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom - how great is that? "

" When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. "

" I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. "

" The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination. "

" We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. "

" One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed. "

" We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment. "

" You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense. "

" Darkness might seem to obscure what's happening, but I find it's always pretty revelatory: it brings out the awe in us, the fear in us, the excitement of exploring the hidden or unknown. It seems to conceal, but it really shines a light on what we want, what we need, and what we'll do to get it. Especially when we think no one can see us. "

" I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious. "

" I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem. "

" The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear. "

" I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it. "

" I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell. "

" The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free. "

" When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil. "

" I never get tired of talking about 'Galaxy Quest.' I am so proud of that movie. Our only fear was that we were having so much fun making the movie we got concerned it might not be as good as we thought it was going to be. "

" Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. "

" We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty. "

" The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. "

" I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear. "

" Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. "

" Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives. "

" True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful. "

" If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend. "