Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
Terence McKenna
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Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
Walter Annenberg
Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
J. R. Moehringer
There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
Fernando Pessoa
A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.
Karl Marx
I want to bring us together as a nation to recognize the humanity and support the potential of all of our people.
Hillary Clinton
The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.
Andrew Jackson
One of the things, none of the distributions have ever done right is application packaging ... making binaries for linux desktop applications is a major fucking pain in the ass.
Linus Torvalds
The fact that people put on 'Honey, I'm Good' to get their day started - that's really sweet.
Andy Grammer
For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.
Mary Bono
I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.
Maria Cornejo
When you start punishing and censoring comedians, that's a real bad sign of us as Americans losing our First Amendment rights. As a comedian, I'm gonna push the boundaries. Some things you're going to love, and some things you're going to hate. But this is America. Great people died for us to have this right.
Byron Allen
When I see my picture in the papers, I imagine that people think I'm a lot more serious than I am. They probably think I'm pretty miserable.
Jamie Hince
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds to the possibilities of the human condition.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
I was able to realize that I definitely want to make sure that I use my voice, as it gets bigger and bigger, in the world for good.
Edy Ganem
I become obsessed with one thing or one look, a Bohemian look for instance, and then I wear that for a while.
Odeya Rush
When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
Facundo Pieres
I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.
Chi McBride
We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
Terence McKenna
