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.
In life, you don’t get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. So don’t be afraid to ask – the worst you can hear is ‘no.’
Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I’m afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I’m very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can’t really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can’t.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
I still play the fiddle every day. I’m afraid if I don’t, it won’t know who I am.
I didn’t expect to be afraid of RuPaul. But I was.
I was afraid to watch ‘Blade Runner’ in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.
Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.
I’m always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that.
Basically, I’m afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
Thinking about the cold weather in England… Don’t be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
I’ve never been afraid to fail.
In Ethiopia… you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
If Disney wants ideas for a princess, make her an independent woman, one who is not afraid to face the daily struggles of life, and refuses to wear expensive dresses. Because we all know life is messy, and those dresses are too pretty to get dirty.
I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
I’m not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I’m always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
I’m not afraid to use my platform. I don’t want to preach to people; I just want to put my opinions across about things I feel strongly about.
I remember, when I got my first period, I was almost afraid to tell me mother, who’s quite an open, loving person. But I felt really weird; the chat just wasn’t there.
There’s a myth on the Internet that I’m afraid of heights. I don’t know where that came from, but it isn ‘t true.
I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Work hard, use your common sense and don’t be afraid to trust your instincts.
I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to dump my selfishness.
When you come from a background like mine, where you’re entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
You can’t stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.
I think NASCAR’s coming to Canada now so it’ll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.
In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we’re not consciously looking for it.
I always, always liked children… I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around.
People say I seem very negative about new music – well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I’ll tell ’em. I don’t like ’em. I’ll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player’s mam or summat, but I’m afraid that’s just me.
I’ve always been attracted to things that are taboo. I’ve never been afraid to go to that dark place.
Women’s Lib? Oh, I’m afraid it doesn’t interest me one bit. I’ve been so liberated it hurts.
I’m afraid of peacocks.
The problem with ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ was that it was designed to be a PG-13 movie. It was literally a horror movie for a younger generation. I was trying to do the film equivalent of teenage, young adult readers, and when they gave it an R rating, the movie couldn’t sustain an R.
I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know – I’m always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother’s health or just my professional trials and tribulations.
Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
Comedy’s really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that’s something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.
When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.
We’ve always been told to pretend as if we’re not afraid.
I’d like to run for office someday, but I’m afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage.
I have become more and more afraid about marriage and parenting. I think it’s because I am getting older. Of course, there will be a lot to learn, and I also know that the experience will help in my acting.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it’s okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
People who succeed in my job are people who are not afraid to look silly.
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature – that’s where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.
Don’t be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.
I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There’s many sides to personality, but it’s a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I’m trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she’s not afraid of it.
Be intentional with your space. Don’t be afraid to step on a limb and design your home the way you love it.
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don’t be afraid to fail.
If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don’t respect him.
Women love an honest man. An honest man that isn’t afraid to say, ‘Men get hurt too.’ And a lot of men don’t admit that.
We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.
At some point, most of us reach a place where we’re afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we’re already good at. This confines us and stifles us.
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
I’ve always been attracted to music, and women like Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald and Tina Turner showed the path, in a way. They’re all tough women but not afraid to be vulnerable. They made me feel someone like me could do that.
