Ernest Becker Quotes
To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
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The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
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Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people.And spreading fear is called terrorism.
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The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the moment he committed the crime.
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Can someone please explain to me what that was all about?
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I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
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In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
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He shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter, which will help our low-post players, ... He is a veteran who brings both playoff experience and leadership.
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Enduring to the end is definitely not a do-it-yourself project.
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He's certainly welcome to bring us any kind of information he can. I think just the fact that he is coming might spur some interest in the community.
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
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In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.
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We do make sure that one person doesn't stand out. But then, we are really unique. We all have our style, so I think we all stand out. We each have our own roles and positions in the band, and then we work together to make sure we all try hard for the Army.
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
