Maureen Dowd 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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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!
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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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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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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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I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love.
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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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I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?
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I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
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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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Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
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Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
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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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I've always had a problem showing fear on a film.
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
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A decision made from fear is always the wrong decision.
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If I don't write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream.
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It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.
