Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.Terence McKenna
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess -
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
Ted Turner -
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
Wanda Sykes -
I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
Natasha Richardson -
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
Hansika Motwani -
America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
Ferdinand Mount
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin -
When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
Gary Locke -
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
Samantha Power -
A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.
Tanith Lee -
I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
Yann Martel
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
Lord Byron -
My thing is, I want to play for the team that wants me to be a part of them.
Blake Griffin -
It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.
Claire Tomalin -
I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
Elizabeth Debicki -
I think the first general point to make from epidemiological studies across millions of people is the following - that short sleep predicts a shorter life. It predicts all cause mortality.
Matthew Walker -
It's actually sad to be rich.
Masayoshi Son
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There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today.
Jan Chipchase -
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
Terence McKenna -
I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.
Philippe Petit -
Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to fight it. But when I fought it, the creative process was interrupted, so I ended up going with it. If I'm ever accused of being derivative of my heroes then I would take that as a compliment. I like staying close to the roots of my influences.
Dale Watson -
But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
Terence McKenna