Emma Curtis Hopkins Quotes
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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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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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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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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
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It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.
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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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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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Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.
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I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.
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Countries at war lived in a state of perpetual fear.
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Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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We need to be realistic. There is very little we can do now to stop the ice from disappearing from the North Pole in the summer. And we probably cannot prevent the melting of the permafrost and the resulting release of methane. In addition, I fear that we may be too late to help the oceans maintain their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
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As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
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Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
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I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.
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The onset of fear makes the simplest actions complex and difficult.
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
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In normal life, I'm just kind of chill. I don't normally get that angry.
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A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
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I think Skeeter even says that when she calls up Miss Stein. "No one asked Mammy how she feels in Gone With The Wind." Mammy wasn't really much of a fleshed-out character. She was just kind of there to take care of Miss Scarlett.
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If God is your world, what have you to fear?
