Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.Terence McKenna
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
Kate Winslet -
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Samuel Butler -
In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
Patricia Velasquez -
My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson -
I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
Aaron Ruell -
I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
Felicity Jones -
Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Mahalia Jackson -
It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
Valerie Plame -
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
Candice Bergen -
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
Laura Wade -
I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
Yancy Butler -
In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
Brown Campbell -
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
Rajneesh
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
Barry McGuigan -
'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.
Action Bronson -
In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.
Nargis Fakhri -
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to do the same kind of films. You can really protect yourself as an actor if you work with really good people. It can hide a lot of flaws along the way.
George Clooney -
We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.
Terence McKenna