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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I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.
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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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What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
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One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
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I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.
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I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
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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.