Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
Barbara Bush
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
Orison Swett Marden
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
Sam Graves
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Campbell Scott
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
Pat Paulsen
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
Damien Chazelle
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
A. R. Ammons
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
Nargis Fakhri
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
Jack Nicholson
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
Edmund Wilson
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Be Nice. Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. I admit it's not easy when you've got a gripe. To be agreeable while disagreeing - that's an art. Be natural - write the way you talk.
Malcolm Forbes
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
Aristophanes
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
Albert Einstein
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I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.
Martin Garrix
Area21
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Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
Emma Roberts
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I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.
Jennifer Ellison
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If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.
Don Rickles
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I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that.
DeRay Mckesson
