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"When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand."
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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

"I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I've been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose."

"Fear makes you a stranger to yourself."

"Cautiously, he moved further out, checking the roofs, doors, windows. Nothing. He walked out further, keeping against the wooden wall of a building, just in case. His heart was pounding in his ears. Strange, isn't it? You could be in hundreds of fights, but everyone always seemed like the first time. A million different things could happen, go completely wrong. Then it might well be his last. Where is he? Which building?"
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"I'm wide open and will entertain anything anybody has to say, but if it's MTV and radio, well, they're great things, but can't be the only thing. I don't know that it would work even for the Beatles."

"I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred."

"What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible."

"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is."

"If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to."
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