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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If you can play the piano, you can play any instrument.
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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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We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.
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You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.
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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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The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
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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.
