Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.
Terence McKenna
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
Karen Armstrong
I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
Yvonne Strahovski
Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
Patricia Velasquez
I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like going, 'Uhhh, I'm done' when I eat.
Patrice O'Neal
When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
Daniel Espinosa
I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
Rand Paul
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence
If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
Calvin Johnson
The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
Oded Fehr
It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
P. J. O'Rourke
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.
Sam Taylor-Wood
'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
Viggo Mortensen
The only time people get pressured into doing reunions to make more money is when the current lineup is underperforming. And by bringing back the other guy, it increases their draw.
Eddie Trunk
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
Carl Bernstein
Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.
Barbara Delinsky
To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.
Sam Shepard
I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
Walter Cronkite
