Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.
Terence McKenna
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
Vicky McClure
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
Abhishek Bachchan
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
Garth Risk Hallberg
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I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
Maika Monroe
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
Odeya Rush
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
Carl Lewis
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If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
Pamela Meyer
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Yakov Smirnoff
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
Manu Bennett
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
Walter Kirn
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
W. Edwards Deming
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I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.
Bipasha Basu
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I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai Lama
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There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
Charles Krauthammer
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In the middle of the dream I said to myself 'press pause' and in the dream I said I'm going to write this down. But I was so frightened to get out of bed and write it down that I would miss the rest of the story. And I had to know what happens. And I pressed play. When I finished there was a knowing that I would never forget this. I literally had a smile. There was a knowing in my sleep. And here I am. I was actually reading it to my dogs yesterday. I still find it quite incredible.
David Dayan Fisher
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Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.
Terence McKenna
