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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In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
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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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The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
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What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify.
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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.
