Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mick Fleetwood 
			 
			
				Fleetwood Mac  
			
			
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Prince William 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jeremy Lin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dayton Callie 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lena Waithe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lindsay Davenport 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When I was at university in the Fifties, Latin America was full of dictators. Trujillo was the emblematic figure because, of course, of his cruelty, corruption, extravagance, and theatricalities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Mario Vargas Llosa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Philip Glass 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Oddly enough, my partner went on Prodigy when it first came out, and I ended up playing with some of that stuff!. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bobby Sherman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For me, that was a hard scene [in "Fences"] to do twenty-something times, which (laughing), I counted. That was difficult, but once I did it, I felt like I could do anything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Viola Davis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Stevie Wonder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Terence McKenna