Eric Berne Quotes

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

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• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• Morocco is completely alive for me because I spent about a third of my life there. The first few times I went back to Casablanca, I walked through the streets and remembered how years earlier I had walked those same streets and prayed that a miracle would happen and I would leave and become famous.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • Famous
  • Same

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• I grew up being told by my parents each time they went off to war that they may explode, so I needed to know how things like the gadgets in the kitchen worked.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Hand
  • Moderation
  • Bipartisan

• Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Moving
  • Development
  • Prison

• I don't think I make decisions as an actor based on what I think the fans will or will not want at this point.

  

  Charlie Cox

• You know I think the president has to really focus on getting elected to a second term in 2012. And I need to focus on making sure I'm accountable to the people of Missouri.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • People
  • Focus

• I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.

  

  Phoebe Snow
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

  

  Charles Lindbergh

• What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.

  

  James Carville
  • People
  • Great
  • Commitment

• During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.

  

  Amin Maalouf
  • America
  • Moving

• I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli

• I have never wanted to leave Malayalam films.

  

  Keerthy Suresh

• I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

  

  Mark Shields
  • Effort
  • Bridge

• My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.

  

  Christien Meindertsma
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• I think you find stories with fresh perspectives, and there can be a danger in the opposite way when you start getting too cynical and things just don't start seeming like stories, and things don't seem exciting anymore. It's like, 'Yep, this is my fourth caucus, and I know everybody and know everything and I am writing just to impress my friends.'

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Writing
  • Friends

• How long is a man’s life, finally? Is it a thousand days, or only one? One week, or a few centuries? How long does a man’s death last? And what do we mean when we say, ‘gone forever’?

  

  Brian Patten
  • Week
  • Days
  • Centuries

• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  

  Oren Peli
  • Unknown
  • Scare
  • Shocking

• The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • You
  • Nothing

• I don't really have a type of guy I like. It's just like nice guys, cute boys I mean, ones that are funny.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Nice

• Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

  

  Eric Berne
  • Intimacy