Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.Terence McKenna
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
Daniel Dennett -
I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
Abbey Clancy -
One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
I have reservations about everything I do.
Larry David -
I don't want to become known as just a body.
Taylor Lautner -
People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
Taylor Kitsch
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I don't really believe in the auteur theory.
Park Chan-wook -
If I have one success in my relationship history, it's with the people who listen to my music. I think that they'll be there with me forever, and I'll be there with them forever. And I'm totally satisfied with that.
Fiona Apple -
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
M. Ward -
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 -
That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
Barbara Mandrell -
I love being around my mom and my dad.
Maddie Hasson
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I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
Dana Perino -
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens -
I'm good at keeping secrets.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln -
Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.
Ian Frazier -
Most of my books have been about the complex ways an individual depends on community.
Barbara Kingsolver
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As the surface of the seashore rocks were pitted by by the waves and gathered limpets that further disguised what lay beneath, so time made truth of what appeared to be. The days that passed, in becoming weeks, still did not disturb the surface an assumption had created. The weather of a beautiful summer continued with neither sign nor hint that credence had been misplaced. The single sandal found among the rocks became a sodden image of death; and as the keening on the pier at Kilauran traditionally marked distres brought by the sea, so did silence at Lahardane.
William Trevor -
The radio has nothing to do with metal's existence or non-existence. It's for trend only.
Steven Barry "Lips" Kudlow Anvil -
Ultimately, the current argument is "not having net neutrality will hurt innovation," and you can make that argument, but I would rather make the public good argument, which is not just about innovation or nurturing new companies that will add to the nation's GDP, it's actually about creating a democratic public sphere.
Astra Taylor -
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London -
I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
Ira Glass -
The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.
Terence McKenna