Ernest Becker Quotes
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.
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Bodybuilders party a lot, and once, in Gold's — the gym in Venice, California, where all the top guys train — there was a black girl who came out naked. Everybody jumped on her and took her upstairs, where we all got together.
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Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.
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Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.
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My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.
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I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.
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I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin' icon, you're not on the show, you know?
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An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections.
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
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Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.
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You want to be an NXT fan.
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When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'
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Horror alone brings peace of mind.
