Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
Idina Menzel -
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge -
Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
Carl Hagelin -
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
Page McConnell -
I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
Dan Colen -
I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
Jack Ramsay
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams -
By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
Camilla Belle -
You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
Larry Wilmore -
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
Abel Ferrara -
I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
Sally Mann -
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
Sam Harris
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
Barbara Jordan -
If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
Carine Roitfeld -
There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
Patrick Modiano -
I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.
Dan Simmons -
I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.
Alan Greenspan
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We're looking for somebody that can play the two (shooting guard) or the three (small forward). If we find somebody, it's going to be someone with NBA experience and primarily we're looking for a three because we have Mobley and Livingston that can play the two.
Elgin Baylor -
It was one of the hardest landings I've ever had.
Sam Endicott The Bravery -
I've been lucky enough to sort of go over different mediums, different vibes and genres.
Faye Marsay -
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
Bill Nye -
No one knows enough to worry.
Terence McKenna