Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.Terence McKenna
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig -
I am healthy and happy.
Candice Swanepoel -
I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
Aasif Mandvi -
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
Ted Rall -
Western man is schizophrenic.
J. B. Priestley -
The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
Rand Paul
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
Nate Diaz -
I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
Oscar Levant -
A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
Cab Calloway -
Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
Barbara Ann Radnofsky -
The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
Kara Walker
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
Farley Mowat -
On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
Hans Blix -
I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.
Kevin Dillon -
Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.
Philip Kerr -
Sport is a great way to keep fit. It's a stress reliever.
Katie Taylor -
I have routines but not superstitions.
Garbine Muguruza
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We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.
Jonathan Kozol -
When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.
Aloe Blacc -
To young professionals - and particularly women - looking to advance, it is imperative to keep your life in balance.
Peggy Johnson -
I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.
David Shields -
The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
Jacques Audiard -
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
Terence McKenna