Gavin de Becker Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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Toward the One, the perfection of love, harmony and beauty, the only being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the master, the spirit of guidance.
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Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.
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I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.
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The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
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Nothing can save us. All this sweetness dies and rots.
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Denial is a save now, pay later scheme.
