Ernest Becker Quotes
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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It's healthy to have interests besides books.
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Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
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Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.
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To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
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Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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Prayer is the hard-work business of Christianity, and it nets amazing results.
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It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.
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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
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Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.
