Joko Beck Quotes
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski -
In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I don't know if this classifies as a video game, but I have a terrible obsession with Angry Birds.
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Everybody knew me as a gay man, and in my life in London, I never tried to hide.
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I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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I'm not a camp, throwaway queen; I'm not in Neverland. I'm not Jennifer Lopez with three people to pluck my eyebrows. I've made myself what I want to be - not everybody's cup of tea. And people wanna have a look at me. I fully accept that. People have always wanted to have a look at me.
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Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do.
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We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
