Afraid Quotes
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I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.
Mike Tyson
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great
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Leadership is the ability to take people to places they would be afraid to go alone.
Bob Galvin
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The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: "You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
Taylor Swift
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We traveled so far and your friendship meant everything. It was very difficult, but there were moments of beauty. Everything ends. I am not afraid.
Emily St. John Mandel
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You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann Hesse
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If you're afraid - don't do it, - if you're doing it - don't be afraid!
Genghis Khan
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Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.
Lauryn Hill Fugees
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I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.
Katherine Rundell
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When people can be vulnerable to one another then you're kind of giving people permission to really be yourself and not try to impress all the time and you get into more interesting work. You're being real and you're not afraid to mess up or seem weird.
Mark Webber Pulp
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I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.
Samantha Shannon
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My compliance without participation began to disorientate him. I thought, as always in those circumstances, that I should pretend a yearning and uncontrolled passion or push him away. But I didn't dare to either one or the other: I was afraid I would throw up, because the result would be earthquake-like waves. I had only to wait.
Elena Ferrante
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We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
Zack Wamp
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Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Earl Nightingale
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I'm afraid we get a great deal of our exposure to art through magazines and through slides and I think this is dreadful, this is anti-art because art is direct experience with something in the world and photography is just a rumor, a kind of pornography of art.
Carl Andre
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I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself.
Flannery O'Connor
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Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
Taylor Caldwell
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I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
Samuel Johnson
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I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.
Stevie Wonder
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For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
Oprah Winfrey
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I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.
Billy Joel