Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
Warren Ellis -
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
R. D. Laing -
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny -
If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
Samuel Alito -
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
Gabriel Macht -
In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
Dan Hill
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I like to think of myself as classy.
Ieva Laguna -
I'm not really a food connoisseur.
Aasif Mandvi -
God is best known in not knowing him.
Saint Augustine -
The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
Taylor Lautner -
When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
Millions of animals are euthanized every year because shelters can't find homes for them. Buying animals from pet stores also tends to support puppy and cat mills, many of which have deplorable conditions for animals, which shouldn't be tolerated.
Laura Mennell
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
Kate Brown -
If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
Pat Sajak -
'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
J. J. Abrams -
Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
Leo Tolstoy -
I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke - after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America - I really like the paintings of George W. Bush.
Jerry Saltz
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And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.
Minoru Yamasaki -
Men and women are equally intelligent, but separate factors, such as the abilities to focus, be collaborative and take other people's views into account, allow you to be successful.
Hanna Rosin -
I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel -
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde -
The Devil would be the best way out as an excuse for God; in that way he would be playing the same part as an agent of economic discharge as the Jew does in the world of the Aryan ideal. But even so, one can hold God responsible for the existence of the Devil just as well as for the existence of the wickedness which the Devil embodies.
Sigmund Freud -
The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
Terence McKenna