Ernest Becker Quotes
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.Ernest Becker
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Narrow banks could restart effective intermediation and ensure that consumers and employment-creating small and medium-size enterprises are adequately financed and can contribute to the reactivation of the economy.
Edmund Phelps -
It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
L. Sprague de Camp -
I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
Jackie Collins -
I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
Francesca Annis -
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
F. Sionil Jose -
When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.
Patrick Duffy
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Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.
Olivia Colman -
Hearing the blues changed my life.
Van Morrison -
Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.
Warren Farrell -
So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
Paul Thomas Anderson -
You can't value others until you value yourself.
Caroline Ghosn -
I'm intensely private. I don't like giving interviews.
Marc Warren
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As our expedition to New York seems likely to be attended with a very fatal Consequence, and ourselves haply censured for undertaking it without assurance of success.
Lewis Hallam -
If somebody else wanted to do a song for McDonald's, that's up to them. I wouldn't do something like that, but whatever.
Kurt Vile -
Whenever I hear the word 'breakout,' I associate it with acne.
Bryce Dallas Howard -
When you are born rich, you have all these options. You can pursue a career path that you find interesting; there's no need or pressure to start working to get funds just for survival, which is something a lot of people have to struggle with.
Jamie Johnson -
We are God's children. We are Christians first, and then what we do flows from that.
Benjamin Watson -
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
Jeremy Hardy
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Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein -
I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
Bill Gates -
Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. Chidambaram -
Yeah, I want Dracula. Forever be young and wild, dark and dangerous. Yeah, I love, I love the tragically beautiful!
Beatrice Miller -
I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
Ernest Becker