Scared is not a word I use.
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D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON Scared is a strong word. I don't think I was that scared. We had jitters, and that was easy to see.
BOBBY FRASOR Safe is just another word for scared.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
DONATELLA VERSACE Hate is not a word we use in our home. I don't hate them. I just want justice done.
CLARA TAYLOR [New England Patriots defensive coordinator Eric Mangini, who formerly coached that team's defensive...
AL GOLDEN Jesus is just a word I use to swear with
RICHARD HARRIS I don't know why anyone would use the word inevitable, ... It clearly is not inevitable.
DONALD RUMSFELD I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use... I prefer the word "unethical."
IVAN BOESKY What I'm looking for is players that are smart, that give us flexibility to take advantage of our op...
ERIC MANGINI I picked up jock straps, I did laundry . . . I did it all.
ERIC MANGINI I have always had the highest regard for him both as an individual and as one of the fiercest and mo...
ERIC MANGINI He's as good as anybody who focuses solely on one area, ... I'd put him head to head with any genera...
ERIC MANGINI Chad's status with the Jets is unchanged. He's a great competitor, a great person.
ERIC MANGINI I think the main qualities that made this job attractive to me were the commitment by the front offi...
ERIC MANGINI If you want to be the best you have to beat the best and if we can win this division, I think there'...
ERIC MANGINI We're going to play whatever gives us the best chance to win. So if it's 3-4, 4-3, 2-6, whatever it ...
ERIC MANGINI This is a team effort 100 percent. I am going to work with Terry as much as I can. He's going to wor...
ERIC MANGINI I think Chad is a great competitor. I think he's a hard worker. I think he's smart, and I respect al...
ERIC MANGINI I thank you guys for having the vision to make me your head coach.
ERIC MANGINI I'm excited about the job and I'm excited about the opportunity.
ERIC MANGINI Each year we've lost guys. We just have to adjust to the transition and that's what we're doing.
ERIC MANGINI They are making progress, but I think more importantly defensively as a group we're making progress....
ERIC MANGINI I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States.
I always use the word "Union" or "...
JOHN CALDWELL CALHOUN I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no...
MICK ROCK Not that I recall. I don't use the word juice in that context.
JEFFREY SKILLING I think there should be a law not to use the word 'forever' in a promise.
JOHN B. BEJO 'Alarming' is a conservative word to use.
CARLTON DUFRECHOU Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
HENRIK IBSEN It?s weird! Surreal is the word I would use.
GARY LOVEMAN We're not scared of them.
BRAD RICHARDS I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the...
MITCH HEDBERG A lot of people knew who Eric was. You didn't go in Casey's and not know Eric.
ANNE REEVES Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don't use that word a lot.
JIM STEINMAN Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes c...
RAY CHARLES Use the right word and not its second cousin
MARK TWAIN I never use that word, retire.
B. B. KING A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
BURT BACHARACH Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
VALERIE JUNE 'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER A successful person will never use the word ‘no’, ‘I cannot’ or ‘it is impossible
SUNDAY ADELAJA Ariel: “Eric!”
Eric: “Do not sing me back to shore! Not until you are standing on two fee...
KHALIA N. HADES Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.
JEFF LINDSAY A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
BURT BACHARACH I sometimes think that 'friend' is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.
SCOTT LYNCH A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.
DAVE BRAT Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
HENRIK IBSEN When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of...
MICHELLE BACHELET I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now.
PETER PACE Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
MARK TWAIN The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or do...
CHARLES IVES I'm a huge, huge fan of Chris Morris. I think he's a genius, and it is not a word I use very...
ROBERT WEBB In China we use the word baptism a lot, it's a very revolutionary word.
JOAN CHEN It's so amazing, if I can use that word,
JOYCE AGU For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word meaning it can be de...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can b...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
SHANNON L. ALDER These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to h...
DEREK JARMAN These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to h...
DEREK JARMAN To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to...
CHRISTOPH WALTZ A synonym is a word you use in place of one you can't spell.
UNKNOWN A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Eric Heiden is a freak of nature.
CHAD HEDRICK Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle ...
MAYA ANGELOU courage is what you do when you are scared. If you’re not scared, it’s not courage
RAYAN BLACK I love Eric Clapton.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU I hate to use the word crisis, but there is certainly potential for real supply tightness,
TOM BENTZ I wasn't scared about the abnormality. But I was scared about not playing hockey again. That was a s...
JIRI FISCHER We (coaches) had an idea, but these kids have never been through something like this. I don't want t...
NATE ALTENHOFEN We had a plan that all the Acura cars would stay together and use the draft, ... I was gaining on Er...
BRANDON DAVIS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going ...
DEREK JARMAN We use the word ‘LOVE’ for camouflaging so many of our emotions. Why can’t we use different wo...
ANURAG SHOURIE I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do...
MELANIE LAURENT It's really devastating; I don't know what other word to use,
JOE TORRE While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I...
CYNTHIA NIXON One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasi...
JEFFREY BERNARD I am so grateful. Eric was very loving, very kind, and what better legacy could Eric have?
MARY MOLNAR One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Magic is the word illiterates use for phenomena they can’t explain.
T.K. KISER I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the mor...
KARAN JOHAR A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Su...
JACKIE CHAN Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
EMMA BULL The use of the word 'annoy' is particularly problematic. What's annoying to one person may not be an...
MARV JOHNSON I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.
ERIC DAVIS I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUN I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUN I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.
WERNER VON BRAUN I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on ...
JEREMY LIN I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
DEE BROWN We are shopping Eric. Obviously, we would much rather have Eric released. But if we can work out a t...
GREG JOHNSON Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
UNKNOWN Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
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ERIC HOFFER The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
ERIC HOFFER Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the...
ERIC HOFFER To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as h...
ERIC HOFFER