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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Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it's ok as long as you know what you want and you're going towards that. Accept it's going to be a different path than you thought in the first place.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.
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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.
