Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.Terence McKenna
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni -
I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
Gabby Douglas -
If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
Manolo Blahnik -
The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
W. Mark Felt -
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
Barry Ritholtz -
My mum is my beauty icon, because she represents what I think beauty is.
Bar Refaeli
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill -
After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.
Claire McCaskill -
I just serve others through entertaining. That's when I am happy.
Elaine Stritch -
I try not to have actors in mind when I write because the tendency then is to be influenced by either their last performance or your favourite of their performances.
Christopher Nolan -
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
John Lancaster Spalding -
It's very hard to find things that rhyme with North American Free Trade Agreement.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
Janet Jackson -
The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.
B. W. Powe -
Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests.
Barack Obama -
Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
Vance Havner -
If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.
Donald Miller -
All my wife and I do is fight about sex. The other night, we really had it out. Well, I'll put it this way - I had it out.
Jack Roy
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What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
Edward Hallett Carr -
Therefore, since the world has stillMuch good, but much less good than ill,And while the sun and moon endureLuck’s a chance, but trouble’s sureI’d face it as a wise man would,And train for ill and not for good.
A. E. Housman -
The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
Terence McKenna