Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
Madeline Kahn -
A cat is never vulgar.
Carl Van Vechten -
Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
Hampton Sides -
The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
Jack Horner -
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Jack LaLanne
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
Vikas Swarup -
I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.
Edmund Hillary -
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
Frances Wright -
Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.
Gary Hamel -
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Saint Augustine -
Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.
Faye Marsay
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Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
Patrick Henry -
I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
Sami Gayle -
Now my tapestry's unraveling.
Carole King -
The art of love is who you share it with.
Neil Diamond -
I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.
Quinn Shephard -
A heartless Christian must be a terrible grief to our Lord.
Oswald Chambers
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No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.
Tahl Raz -
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
Edwidge Danticat -
Most people, once the money started getting bigger, thought we would buy a millionaire's house looking out at the sea - but what would two middle-aged people do that for? We were sensible enough when we got it.
Maeve Binchy -
I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
Terence McKenna