Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.
Terence McKenna
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Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.
Walt Mossberg
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
Joanne Rowling
There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
Naomi Watts
All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
Samuel Beckett
I was horrified by the attacks against her, but Madonna knew the situation in Malawi, where he was born. In that country, there isn't really a legal framework for adopting. Personally, I prefer to stay on the side of the law.
Angelina Jolie
There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.
Douglas Feith
A lot of people feel pressured by the outside influences, whether it's your job, whether it's school. But who says you can't take care of that stuff and still be young?
Khalid
I think people have an appetite for VR at $200, $300, $400. It's something so new and improves so quickly, people do have an appetite to buy that. If people are getting a new VR headset every two or three years that's incredibly improved, you want to go do that.
Brendan Iribe
I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage.
Lillie Langtry
I can't wait until I get to play the fat guy in the office.
Jason Momoa
Honesty is the best policy; the only way out is deeper in: a candid confrontation with existence is dizzying, liberating.
David Shields
We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
Katherine Dunham
In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.
Hermann Hesse
It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
Gary W. Keller
When I eat cilantro, it's like someone sprayed perfume down my throat. It closes up my throat, even if there's only a little piece. I like Mexican food, and I'll go out to a Mexican restaurant and tell them, 'Look, I will die if you get cilantro in my food.' Then there's always that one little piece that falls in, and I gag.
Amber Rose
You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're not coming along, you're just as in the dark as you ever were. When they're coming along, there's nothing to it. Sometimes it's so easy, it's like you're a court stenographer.
John Prine
My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
Idina Menzel
I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.
Terence McKenna