Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.
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I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
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When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
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I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.
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I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.
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He who gives early gives twice.
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The more comfortable you are, and the more you can relax, the more truthful your performance is.
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Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.
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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
