Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
Forest Whitaker -
In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
Dan Maffei -
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri -
How dull it is to have people defining you.
Octavia E. Butler -
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
Paracelsus -
I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
Oscar Isaac
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
Edmund Morgan -
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
Usher -
Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
Calvin Johnson -
The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.
Adam Hasner -
Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
Jack O'Brien
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After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?
Jeff Sessions -
My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.
Pranav Mistry -
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
Christina Aguilera -
There's a big difference between knowing math and understanding why math models are important to a business.
Larry Burns -
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
Hans Eysenck -
My mother gets all mad at me if I stay in a hotel. I'm 31-years-old, and I don't want to sleep on a sleeping bag down in the basement. It's humiliating.
Ben Affleck
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There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.
Franz Kafka -
I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.
Cate Marvin -
One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?
Terence McKenna