Quotes with afraid

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  • Anton Chekhov If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Bjorn Borg If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Casey Wilson If you're going to be part of a nationally televised show that airs live and do sketches that haven't even been brainstormed a week earlier, you really can't be afraid to fail.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Sinclair Lewis In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.
    Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Jean Baudrillard In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • William Shakespeare In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Theodor Reik In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.
    Theodor Reik
    Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888 - 1969)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Hitopadesa In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • James Baldwin It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Buenaventura Durruti It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Muhammad Ali It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Woody Allen It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
    Death (A Play)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Beth Ditto It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bette Midler It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Alex Trebek It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • John Gray Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
    John Gray
    American relationship counselor, lecturer and author (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Lucille Ball Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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