Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

Terence McKenna

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• The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Way
  • Class

• I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Smart
  • Try
  • Invest

• I can count my friends on one hand.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Friends
  • Hand
  • I Can

• There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Story
  • Books
  • Literacy

• There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Voices
  • Layering

• I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Want
  • Appreciate
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• Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.

  

  Natasha Hamilton
  • Time
  • Better
  • Confident

• If the formula for water is H

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Water

• A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings on the horizon.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Confidence

• As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Long

• Some of our songs are empowering, but I feel like more so than our music, it's who we are. We're four women who are completely different ethnicities, completely different body types, completely different walks of life and opinions.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Music
  • Different

• As a trusted institution with brick-and-mortar facilities in every corner of the United States, our public Postal Service is uniquely positioned to serve as a communications, finance, and service hub for the 21st century.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • Service

• You have to give everything to every job you do.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Job

• One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

  

  David Walliams
  • Different
  • Control
  • Attention

• I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.

  

  Pete Rose
  • Work
  • Live
  • Vegas

• Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

  

  Bill Parcells
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• For as little as a thousand dollars, you can open an account at Schwab. I mean, it's not a big barrier to entry.

  

  Charles Schwab

• Science is not the mere collection of facts, which are infinitely numerous and mostly uninteresting, but the attempt by the human mind to order these facts into satisfying patterns.

  

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Facts

• I don't care if you broke, you grew up broke... you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs in a day! We all only get 24 hours in a day. It's what we do with it that makes the difference!

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Difference
  • Broke
  • Don't Care

• Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Midnight on the water I saw the ocean's daughter Walking on a wave's chicane Staring as she called my name And I can't get it out of my head No, I can't get it out of my head Now my old world is gone for dead 'Cos I can't get it out of my head

  

  Jeff Lynne Electric Light Orchestra
  • World
  • She
  • Water

• Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.

  

  Washington Gladden
  • Purpose
  • Christian
  • Ruling

• As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

  

  Terence McKenna