Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.Terence McKenna
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
Ha-Joon Chang -
It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
Kate Smith -
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock -
My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
Patrick Carman -
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
Karl von Frisch -
Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.
J. K. Simmons
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The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.
S. Jay Olshansky -
I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
Laura Linney -
You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
Ferdinand de Saussure -
Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
Abbas Kiarostami -
A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
Jack Ma
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
Oren Peli -
He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one’s youth.
Jack Vance -
O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.
Angelus Silesius -
Travel within thyself! The Stone Philosophers with wisest arts Have vainly sought, cannot be found By travelling in foreign parts.
Angelus Silesius -
Puns are the highest form of literature.
Alfred Hitchcock -
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
Chuck D
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Life isn’t worth living if you’re scared all the time.
Sara Shepard -
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
Andre Agassi -
Personally, I liked Admiral Kelso very much. I believe that he served his country with distinction.
John McCain -
When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.
Jerry Weintraub -
The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
Paul Weller Incognito -
I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.
Terence McKenna