Richard McKenna Quotes
My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.
Quotes to Explore
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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I'm fulfilled in what I do... I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
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I will do simple cleanses and have a day where I'm quiet and don't talk. I need to have this experience, especially after work has been really intense.
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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.
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I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.
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For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.
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I think about John Lennon all the time. What would John Lennon do? What would John Lennon say if he got this part? How would he act? I don't know, but he's my moral barometer.
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Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.
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Nothing lights a fire under you like somebody saying, 'You're not going to be able to do it.'
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We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars, cheats, and terrorists among us.
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If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.
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What's wrong with the world and what can we do to change it?
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I like that the art world isn't regulated.
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Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.
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Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.
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My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.
