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I'm an outgoing person when it comes to friends, but when it comes to being confident and sexy, the sexy word scares me.

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

You love the way it makes me feel when I can't catch my breath Like walkin' on a high wire, Lord, it scares me half to death You're always high above me and I'm always fallin' down Our loves just a circus baby, and I'm just the clown

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

It sucks when you read the script and you're like, "No, I liked that guy!" It's hard to read through the scripts sometimes, and just hope that people you like aren't gone. It scares you.

I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it.

Famous people scare me. I get really nervous around famous people. ... I overcompensate (with) how unimpressed I am, which is completely and utter rubbish. So I'm a fan.

If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.

Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway...

If youre going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If youre going to make a scary movie, scare people well.

Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

Tonight I walked around the pond scaring frogs; a couple of them jumped off, going, in effect, eek, and most grunted, and the pond was still. But one big frog, bright green like a poster-paint frog, didn't jump, so I waved my arm and stamped to scare it, and it jumped suddenly, and I jumped, and then everything in the pond jumped, and I laughed and laughed.

It takes a lot to scare me.

Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.' 'Can't.' 'Why not?' 'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.

I'm a homer, so the closer [I perform] to my house the better. If I could get crowds to gather around my bed, that would be ideal. I also like doing stand-up in places that I can surf, snowboard, or anywhere that I have a pregnancy scare.

Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.

I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot.

Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.

Those who wish to redefine marriage are resorting to scare tactics and making claims that have no basis in reality. Defining marriage is as uncontroversial as it gets.

To scare Tiger a little, I think I'm going to have to put two or three of those up together.

To those who pit Americans against immigrants, citizens against non-citizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve,

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

This shows that even though anti-choice groups are out there trying to scare people about this bill, support remains steady, and that is very encouraging.

Every time I think about Boise they scare me, concern and scare me because of their ability to score.

You assume it's a scare but you can never tell. The market will always be nervous to events like this.

We've had a strong run-up in the last few weeks, so some selling is natural. It may have happened anyway, but the anthrax scare today (Wednesday) really exacerbated it.

To stop us, they want to scare us. They will never succeed, ... We will fulfill the goals she sacrificed her life for.

To me, if they (major retailers) are able to scare off a supplier from doing it, why not do it, because you are eliminating (a) potential competitive channel.

The reason for that is they don?t know what it is. They?re not informed. They think it?s good because ?They?re looking out for our kids.? It?s a big scare tactic.

What is represented related to the increased compliance requirements for records retention comes across as scare tactics, and it's generally being provided by those who would profit the most from organizations 'keeping everything forever,' which is a prescription for disaster for any business. While it is correct to state that more information needs to be retained than in the past and for longer periods of time, the retention of data, information and records beyond required time periods is a risk-laden practice.

We cannot rule out that it was someone trying to scare us away. We are not pulling out -- it would send a strong message that if anyone threw a firecracker in our direction we would leave.

I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

We want to make this as painless as possible; we don't want to scare people off.

We want to demystify the FCAT so that critics of accountability and assessment can't try to scare people or confuse people,

You have to want the haunted house to scare you. It completely steals your money to go through with one of those people who shrug it all off, who touch the monsters' faces to show they're fake.

We had the scare of our life a year ago, being on the bubble in February. We don't want to relive that experience.

We don't want to scare you, but we want to inform you.

We don't want to scare people, but we do want any kids with this to get treated and not come to school Monday and infect others.

Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

Did that out there (on the field) look like it would scare anybody? Why should it?

DNA sequencing opens vast ethical issues. We shall be able to know who has defective genes. What will it mean when we can be sure we're not all born equal? Worked out, the implications will scare a lot of people. Insurance companies will not want to cover those with a genetic predisposition to illness, for example. Here lurk myriad lawsuits.

Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself out of it into the fresh air, with which, into the bargain, everyone round is trying to scare you!

There's a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane.

There's going to be civil unrest and that's what worries me. It's going to scare the white public and it's not really against them. We should be working together.

It would have been nice to get an empty net goal. We had a little scare when they came back in the second. But it was a good test for us, a test of character. It showed the confidence we have in each other now to come back.

These are techniques to scare people, to weaken their intent.

The scare is over. His agent said he had run for an hour prior to Christmas Day and felt no ill-effects, so he will be coming to both UK races.

The scare is if they remove the steroids, it can return.

The scare is beginning to pass. Voters are starting to focus instead on the government's achievements.

The scare has been there for a while now, and we have kept the consumer fully informed and we feel consumers have made an informed decision to keep on buying poultry.

I very much avoid crowds even today. Crowds scare me. I function much better on a more personal level. I don't function very well on a dinner of more than ten. I can't be myself.

The Taxpayers League is using scare tactics and is trying to intimidate the Venice City Council members by adding this sentence in the ad, 'Our PAC will inform you of any council person who places development interests ahead of the citizens of Venice,'

The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare and infuriate parents into supporting $45 million in wasteful spending.

Sometimes, you read a script, and you believe passionately that you must play this character. And I needed to show that passion to him, although I think I downplayed my passion a bit because I didn't want to scare him off. I didn't want him to think I was crazy enough to be a problem.

Sometimes, St. Francis comes in here and gives us a scare -- not that I'm not confident that we will beat them -- but if you don't take them seriously, you could end up on the wrong end of that stick.

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

Routinely, members of Congress who want to get reelected raise a lot of money to scare challengers out of the race. Joel Hefley clearly did not do that in 2005, and suddenly he has an opponent.

Pretty much all the people in the world want to meet you. Don't let anyone scare you into believing otherwise. Get out there and say hello to as many of them as you can while you're here---there is no better thing you can do.

Protectionism is the use of scare tactics, the use of unsound scientific information in an attempt to protect our market. In this case I believe that sound science dictates that it is time to open the border.

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

People used to write a letter, but since the anthrax scare it takes four to six weeks for a letter from Adams County to get to an office in Washington D.C.,

PeopleSoft executives are traveling around telling customers that we will 'kill' PeopleSoft's products and force them to move to Oracle's applications, ... These are lies and scare tactics.

The name of a team doesn't scare me. The name of a player doesn't scare me. It's an opportunity for us to win a ballgame.

Speculators have no reason to scare people with shortages. And you can see this because futures are dropping and prices will continue to drop,

One could say that 9.9 percent is a very convenient number; it's not 10 percent. Ten percent might scare people, and might create more trade friction with the U.S..

(Oil prices) shouldn't have got up so much on Friday because of the Saudi scare that became a non-scare.

Death does not scare me, for I have witnessed and felt great pain. Not Living The Dream scares me, for a life not sharing and caring is a life wasted in vain.

Despite the same, tired old scare tactics of the special interests, under the governor's budget New York will continue to spend more money than any other state on providing quality health care to its citizens. If the special interests want the taxpayers to spend even more than the record amounts they already provide, then the special interests need to say which tax they would raise or what other area of the budget they would cut.

Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don't worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts.

The most gruesome scene that we see is this woman in the cage getting her fingernails clipped. We never see any stabbings. We never see any stranglings. I very much think that you don't have to show it to scare the audience. And when I wrote that scene, everybody told me I was sick. But it's just a woman getting her nails clipped.

You would think that Halloween is tomorrow because of their attempt to scare the American public.

This is a scare tactic. We haven't had raids for a very long, long time. It's a sad thing if we have raids by the government to stop people from expressing their freedom of speech.

This is an exciting time in our growing civil rights movement for marriage equality. The Marriage Equality Matters campaign demonstrates the power of engaging the public and showing them the reality of marriage equality, rather than right-wing rhetoric and scare tactics. When it comes to opening hearts and minds to fairness and reaching the diverse communities who make up our American landscape seeing is, in fact, believing.

This is not a scare tactic -- it's realistic. This is a devastating storm." ()

This isn't a scare tactic. What this is doing is presenting some scientific data in a real-world scenario so people can understand it.

This isn't something where we want to scare people at all.

This deceptive or perceived scare tactic method to renew a magazine is at best unfair and at worst illegal.

This could be a concealed explosive device without metallic parts. The apparent intention was to injure and scare people.

This first one is a turtle. He is 6 years old. He thinks you are scary. ... So we have to make sure we don't scare him.

They're well coached with good players and good athletes. They have just about everything to make an opponent that can scare you.

They're way overestimating our potential. They're trying to scare the American people into thinking we're going back to the back-alley, coat-hanger days, but that's not the case.

They're very conscious of it. They know that whey they go to a meet they're noticed, but it doesn't scare them.

They might not even know who they're facing. It would be nice to give them a scare anyway.

They played some big games last year without Curtis. They can still win the league but it's going to be tougher. They scare me because of the way they spread the court and make you play small ball.

They gave us a bit of a scare there,

This might be the first bomb scare in two to three years.

There's been a lot of talk about this in order to scare people into thinking that access to the Internet is somehow at risk, or that the Internet as we know it is a thing of the past. AT&T will not block anyone's access to the public Internet, nor will we degrade anyone's quality of service.

There's definitely a thrill-seeking part of it. There's calculated risk. We're not throwing ourselves down the hill. Every once in a while I'll scare myself on a mountain bike. I've done things my parents shouldn't know about.

As much as I loved playing that character (on 'Committed'), it did scare me if that show had a long run that people would typecast me as a slightly crazy, ditzy character,