#afraid

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. ↗

— Marilyn French

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I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

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I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night. ↗

— Nelson Gidding

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You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

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I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid. ↗

— John Gotti

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I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

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Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years. ↗

— Deidre Hall

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A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. ↗

— James Harrington

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