Neil Abramson 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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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
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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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'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'
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After a divorce, men’s biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women’s is poverty).
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We are the boysThat fear no noiseWhere the thundering cannons roar.
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Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
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When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is always some fear that makes me put the brakes on a bit.
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There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making it. If we did, we'd never make any progress at all.
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Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
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When I'm too worn out or in pain, I lie in bed and write in my mind.
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Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.
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Being gritty doesn't mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They're able to say things like, 'Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.' That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.
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I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'.
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It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.
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My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do.
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Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.
