Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.
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To overcome any sort of fear is satisfying, and to overcome it well is even better.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are.
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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.
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I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so long as it remains invisible.
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We've seen the worst that men can do, pa, and been the worst that men can be. But that don't mean that someday we won't see the best, too. And if we can never be perfect after this, well, we can still be pretty good, can't we?
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
