Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.Terence McKenna
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
Gabriella Wilde -
Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
Zubin Mehta -
I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
Natasha Richardson -
I'm actually not on Twitter.
Rachel Bilson -
Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
Maluma
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale -
I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.
Frances McDormand -
Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.
Jack Youngblood -
'Gold,' says the Consul, knowing that this is the only syllable that has held its power over the ages.
Dan Simmons -
Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
Aldous Huxley -
I lost all connection with the outside world and was immersed in a world of darkness. I was scared that my existence would fade silently. No one knew where I was, and no one would ever know. I was just like a small soybean-once fallen to the ground, it rolls into a crack in the corner. Being unable to make any sounds, it will forever be forgotten.
Ai Weiwei
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Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
Brittany Snow -
Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.
Belle Boyd -
I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
Antonya Nelson -
I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.
Jamie Hince -
Whether in services or in manufacturing, the trick is to stay ahead of the curve. I believe we should not wait to be disrupted - we should become disruptors ourselves.
Anand Mahindra -
I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.
Brie Larson
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Everything I've written is personal - it's the only way I know how to write.
Charlie Kaufman -
I'm a latecomer to the environmental issue, which for years seemed to me like an excuse for more government regulation. But I can see that in rich societies, voters are paying less attention to economic issues and more to issues of the spirit, including the environment.
David Frum -
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
Ba Jin -
I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
Lamar Alexander -
My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.
Terence McKenna