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
  • Version

• 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
  • Cold

• 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

• There are not grades of racism. There's racism.

  

  Dede Gardner
  • Racism

• But I am sure that God did not intend that there be so many poor. The class structure is of our making and our consent, not His. It is the way we have arranged it, and it is up to us to change it. So we are urging revolutionary change.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Up
  • God

• The most extraordinary dream I ever had was one in which I fancied that, as I was going into a theater, the cloak-room attendant stopped me in the lobby and insisted on my leaving my legs behind me.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Dream
  • Leaving

• Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.

  

  Beetlejuice
  • Strange
  • Unusual
  • Deceased

• One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Facts
  • Higher
  • Behave

• 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