Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.

Terence McKenna

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• We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

  

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• I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

  

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• Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

  

  E. W. Howe
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• The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.

  

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• These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

  

  Edmund White
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• A good fight scene is really a good love scene.

  

  Gayle Forman
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• We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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• I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me.

  

  B. J. Daniels
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Progress
  • Feedback

• I used to go to Cold Stone Creamery, get a tub of Butterfinger ice cream, and eat it all before bedtime. And my fingers were permanently stained orange from Cheetos.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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• When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

  

  Francesca Lo Schiavo
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• And your work reflects a tradition that runs through our history - a belief that we’re greater together than we are on our own. And that’s what I’ve come here to talk about today.

  

  Barack Obama
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• It is a funny view of the world that a book can cause riots.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I wanted to write about school because most of my audience at the particular time was of a school element.

  

  Chuck Berry
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• I always try to follow my moral compass.

  

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• I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home.

  

  Pierre Dukan
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• I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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• This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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  • Sun

• The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.

  

  Naima Adedapo
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  • Live
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• If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certainly needed a Dr. Watson. And Pippi Longstocking, who supposedly inspired Lisbeth Salander, needed Tommy and Annika, the normal middle-class neighbors.

  

  David Lagercrantz
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• The White House is such an extraordinary, simple, beautiful place. It's an extraordinary piece of our history, because it is the one thing that binds our country together. We don't have a king obviously, but we have this president, and the fact that almost all of them have lived in the same place, and so much history took place in those rooms. You can't help but feel awe-inspired by being there.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Country
  • History
  • Together

• These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Inspired
  • Pomposity