Danzy Senna Quotes
My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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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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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
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Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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If you stop and think about who was in the 'Lassie' movies, it's difficult to think who was in them, apart from Elizabeth Taylor. You remember the dog, not the people! So if you're going to be in a movie, and it's called 'Gremlins', it's going to be about Gremlins, and what people are going to remember are the Gremlins.
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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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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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.
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Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.
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People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.
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Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.
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Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym.
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I owe everything to 'Arrested Development.' It just shows that everybody is kind of a job away from having relevance again.
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My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.
