Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.
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In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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When you're walking at the airport, you're expected to smile at people because they know you... I find that tough. I'm only trying to protect myself. So I don't take my eyes off the floor. People can take that as attitude. But it's actually shyness. Yes, it is a bad habit. But it's a defense mechanism.
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One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.
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Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
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Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.
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Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.
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Let us not forget that the sunlight is God's smile of benediction; that the sunshine is Heaven's light and life and glory, the true Shekinah, the real presence with which the temple needs most to be filled; that the cooling breeze is the breath of heaven, a veritable messenger of life, carrying healing on its wings.
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Dump the reds in a pile, boysDump the reds in a pileYou'd better wipe off that smile, boysBetter wipe off that smileWe'll spit through the streets of the cities we wreckWe'll find you a leader that you can't electThose treaties we signed were a pain in the neck'Cause we're the cops of the world, boysWe're the cops of the world.
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People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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I don't think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect - we all know that.
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He whom all hate all wish to see destroyed.
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I scarcely remember counting upon happiness - I look not for it if it be not in the present hour - nothing startles me beyond the moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.
