William Gilmore Simms Quotes
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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I don't fear anything now.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
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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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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.
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I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
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Putting fear into people is the principal goal of terrorists, and they have been successful.
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One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.
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Music is a prerogative of those who are willing to spend time to study it, understand and love it, well aware of the fact that one life is not enough to improve just one single note of what has already been written and performed.
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I'd like to think that my scripts are more significant than maybe the Bible or the book that the Jews use, whatever it's called. And that's only when I'm having an off day.
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Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
