Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?Terence McKenna
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
Dan Brown -
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
Viktor Yushchenko -
I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
Pablo Sandoval -
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
Rafael Nadal -
I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
Gary Burton
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
Edmund White -
I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
Larry Wilmore -
My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.
Zendaya -
I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
Rafael Nadal -
An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.
Rachael Taylor -
Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens us. All we need to do is stop pounding on the door that just closed, turn around-which puts the door behind us-and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls. The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.
Parker Palmer
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Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois shock the middle classes; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it. It is preposterous to equate the denial of taxpayer subsidy with measures 'aimed at the suppression of dangerous ideas.'
Antonin Scalia -
I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing.
Chevy Chase -
I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.
Frankie Avalon -
I had no aspirations to be part of American cinema... I was really a Europe-based person, and those were the films I was inspired by.
Jacqueline Bisset -
I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.
Khloe Kardashian -
You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
Carmen Ejogo
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Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius -
I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
Halle Berry -
I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all.
Kristin Chenoweth -
I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.
Anderson Cooper -
I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.
Lindsay Duncan -
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
Terence McKenna