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.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.
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I can count my friends on one hand.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.
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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.
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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.
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As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.
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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.
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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.
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One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house.
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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.
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I came to Vegas because I work 20 days a month here; I couldn't live anywhere else.
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Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.
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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.
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What I feel like I'm doing is showing people what is humanly possible when someone commits their entire life to something.
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It's pretty easy in theatre. The comedy's either physical or verbal, and you're looking at the whole frame at once. But TV executives want close-ups. I keep telling them to look at Preston Sturges' movies. He'll do a whole scene without a cut in it, and it's a riot.
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My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
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I do remember being in high school and trying to go to an Outlaws concert, but I was too drunk and ended up in trouble with the police at some truck stop on 95 in Connecticut.
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The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be.
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Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.
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Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
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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.
