Neil Abramson Quotes
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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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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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Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.
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I began … to watch with peculiar alarm lest what I called my philosophic estimate of the human lot in general, should be a mere prose lyric expressing my own pain and consequent bad temper.
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The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.
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The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.
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When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
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I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser.
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Pain explains a great deal of human conduct, but the fear of pain even more.
