Ernest Becker Quotes
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.
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I don't need to speak about N'Golo; everyone knows about him. He's everywhere. I think, sometimes when I'm on the pitch, I see him twice. One on the left, one on the right. I think I'm playing with twins!
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And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside.
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It is important that a woman’s 'noes' be respected and her 'yeses' be respected. And it is also important when her nonverbal 'yeses' (tongues still touching) conflict with those verbal 'noes' that the man not be put in jail for choosing the 'yes' over the 'no.' He might just be trying to become her fantasy.
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Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.
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If something produces an undue amount of pleasure or undue amount of displeasure, it's going to be judged differently and it's going to be introduced in your narrative with a different size, with a different development. So that is the next element to superimpose on the sequencing element. And in fact, that element is so powerful that very often it can trump the sequencing event, that the sequencing aspect.
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Runoff from the rainfall this weekend combined with releases from reservoirs is going to keep that river and its tributaries at high levels.
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I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
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Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
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When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.
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An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.
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The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
