Ernest Becker Quotes
It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
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You can't make assumptions when you're dealing with health issues.
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Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
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The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
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It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway towards success. It's more complex to do that with food.
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I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
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There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there.
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You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord. Grass-roots peace work is vitally important. All who work for peace belong to a special peace fellowship - whether we work together or apart.
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Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?
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It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
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The people with the passports, the people who travel more, tend to be the most understanding. And it's ironic that the people who travel the least have the strongest opinions about the people they've never met.
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Coming out of the trance of denial is painful. But crises offer us opportunities to rethink our lives. The best thing about despair is that it wakes us up. We can see the world more clearly and open to new possibilities...And we can find new joy in the ordinary.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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I was suddenly arrested by what seemed to be an awful voice proclaiming the words, "Eternity! Eternity! Eternity!" It reached my very soul — my whole man shook — it brought me like Saul to the ground.
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It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
