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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

But I'm someone who the more afraid I am, the more I want to do it to get the fear over with.

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.

Fear not; and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

I love going over to Europe.

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.'

I got over being embarrassed.

Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

Ease up, the play is over.

America is always attracting people, from all over the earth.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entire career was over then. Not today.

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.