Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
Terence McKenna
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
Sam Hunt
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
Valerie Plame
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
Albert Camus
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
Alain de Botton
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When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.
Leonard Lauder
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When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.
Jim Rash
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Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.
Brett Davern
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The Chinese love Ford's product line: they love the quality, the fuel-efficiency, the safety, the brand.
Alan Mulally
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Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.
Bill Walton
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Performing is the craziest workout for me, because I feel like, on the first day of tour, I'm going nuts. Halfway through, I'm just so tired but obviously you keep pushing yourself because you have fans watching you.
Hayley Williams
Paramore
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The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.
Viggo Mortensen
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I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.
David Johansen
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When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.
Charles Grandison Finney
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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
Terence McKenna