"If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction."
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"The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity."
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"I love playing ego and insecurity combined."
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"Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity."
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"When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy or insecurity."
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"Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-."
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"I think that might also be part of the life of a creative person - those sort of ups and downs and security and insecurity. It's just part of the lot in life when you're pushing yourself and hoping to always keep growing and expanding. It's emotionally tricky."
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"The sad problem is that we see ourselves as being quite terribly small. Instead of spending my time being envious, I need to celebrate your and my different gifts, even if mine are perhaps less spectacular than yours."
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"Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings."
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"My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have."
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"Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything."
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"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."
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"Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at."
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"I feel much safer faced with a blank sheet of paper than I do with a real person."
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"I think what ruins relationships and causes most fights is insecurity."
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"It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom."
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"Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure."
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"The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity."
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"Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty."
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"You're full of insecurities in your 20s - most of the time your heart's being broken, you're having a difficult time finding out who the hell you are, and I was trying to do that in the full glare of the public."
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