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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
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
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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 -
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius -
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans.
Charles Duhigg -
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.
Mark Zuckerberg -
In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
Karl Marlantes -
Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
Candace Cameron Bure -
I'm not the slowest writer that you know.
David Remnick -
Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
Imre Kertesz -
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
Terence McKenna