Ernest Becker Quotes
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
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As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
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I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
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The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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'DONALDSON: But on Friday, you were very pessimistic. You said, 'No good,' when someone asked you how things were going.' No, I'm saying even now, if I have to summarize the situation - in one word it's good, in two words, not good.
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Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.
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Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.
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Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.
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Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
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Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.
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A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
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The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
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I have to keep testing myself.
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The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
