Gavin de Becker Quotes
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
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I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
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Dancing is a beautiful thing.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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Piano is like drudgery.
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I collect movies, I still buy records constantly. I collect musical instruments and most of my time I spend making music, it's pretty much what I do 90% of the time I'm home. Aside from just normal stuff, I walk the dog, I hang out with my girlfriend, get dinner. Pretty mellow stuff.
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You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing
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What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
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The critics try to intellectualize my material. There's no satire involved. Satire is a concept that can only be understood by adults. My stuff is straight, for people of all ages.
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In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.
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Any scene that involves stripping off is hell. You just know it's going to take a day or more to get it right. It never gets any better and it's always uncomfortable, and all you can do is grin and bare it. I just pray it's never gratuitous and that it doesn't look so fake that all you hear in the audience is, 'Well, that's not really her, is it?'
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You know, I agree with President Obama that in Iraq and Afghanistan, at some point in time, we have to take the training wheels off and we have to allow those countries to stand on their own two feet.
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It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.
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The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.
