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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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 -
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 -
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
Pamela Meyer -
Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
Yakov Smirnoff -
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 -
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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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
Vance Havner -
With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Human beings have always been mythmakers.
Karen Armstrong -
I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
Kat Graham -
Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
W. Edwards Deming -
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight,For mother will be there.
A. P. Herbert
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I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but I admire even more his contribution to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and body as one, and not two separate things.
Albert Einstein -
Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
Jeff Bridges -
I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.
James Nesbitt -
I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.
Athol Fugard -
It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.
Sia LSD -
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
Donald T. Regan
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Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
Stocks are bought on expectations, not facts.
Gerald M. Loeb -
I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
Maeve Binchy -
One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
Babasaheb -
If you're not worried, you're not reasonable.
Gene Green -
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.
Terence McKenna