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I play with a fear of letting people down. That is what motivates me.

There is a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that is what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations instead of their fear, respect for our values and not merely our weapons.

I have been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I am all about fueling my faith, especially when it is hard to do so.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I am frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

If you believe in yourself, if you are without fear, you will also be tolerant, non-aggressive and find love.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.

Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.

I am not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.