Ernest Becker Quotes
Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I have the whole costume from Playboy's sixtieth-anniversary cover shoot.
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I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
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I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.
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Most of my instruments are handmade.
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In ancient British times, the whole country belonged to tribes, and the tribes owned their several districts. At the head of each tribe was the chief.
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The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
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A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
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Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.
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The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.
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Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.
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People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.
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You dont have to eat a whole cheeseburger, just take a piece of the cheeseburger.
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I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.
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The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
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Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.
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I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.
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Once you base your whole life striving on a desperate lie, and try to implement that lie, you instrument your own undoing.
