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" My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be. "

Damien Chazelle

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" The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment. "

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" Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear. "

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" The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. "

" I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God. "

" Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. "

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" I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country. "

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" There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. "

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" We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. "

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" Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. "

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" Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects. "

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" I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp. "

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" Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear. "

" When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love. "

" Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly. "

" Do what you fear and fear disappears. "

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" The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. "

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" I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. "

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" I'm not for one second condoning the actions of terrorists at all, but I do think there's a kind of terrorism that the media carries out on its own citizens, certainly in this country - and it's fear. "

" It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good. "

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" Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time. "

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" I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. "

" Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. "

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