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I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Always Asked Exactly Existential Going Had Kind Knew Lawyer Moment Myself Never Wanted

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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

~Albert Murray

Topics: Blues Dancer Determines Existential Fulfilling Fundamental He Man Medicine Mission Musician Poet Priest Requirement Same Swings

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'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Topics: Existential Lot Tenderness

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You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.

~Alex Honnold

Topics: Being Chance Day Die Each Each Day Earth Every Existential Facing Get Hit Knows Lightning Living Mean Might Nothing Over Run Same Who Wrong You

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When I see a room full of people pedaling away on stationary bikes, I fall into an existential spiral. It's confirmation that all we do as humans is pedal, pedal, pedal, and go nowhere. We're just specks of dust in the universe, riding 1970s stationary bicycles.

~Ali Liebegott

Topics: Away Bikes Confirmation Dust Existential Fall Full Go Humans Just Nowhere Pedal People Riding Room See Spiral Stationary Universe I See 1970S

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People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish to fry. They'd rather see a few great dance routines and the guy end up with the girl.

~Alison Owen

Topics: Angst Blame Countries Dance Eager End Existential Few Fish Fry Full Girl Got Great Guy Less Movies Other Over People Problems Rather Routines See Them Up Who

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Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Also America Anyone Anyway Bad Banana Bananas Believe Cure Dread Dying Existential Go Great Half Her Hoard India Known Many Mother Mother Teresa Needs Only People Profit Said Sell Share Street Them Whereas Who Will Woman I Believe

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I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Children Clue Existential Feel Fill Going Hard How Know Love Many Maybe Need People See Us Will I See

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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

~Antonio Tabucchi

Topics: Being Course Existential Life Like Literature My Life Point Point Of View Teacher View

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Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: After Culture Decade Existential How Idea Improvisational Innovative Matter Music Musical Nothing Sacred Threatened

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