Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
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I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.
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Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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Wayne and Drake, it takes them so long to do a song. I understand why, because they want it to be perfect. But I think I can do a perfect song in 10 minutes.
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Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.
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The favourites and the stronger teams have a lot of pressure during the group phase because everybody just takes it for granted that they will reach the round of 16.
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The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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That's quite a difficult thing in life, to be who you are. And when you are doing interviews, you kind of feel this need to say something interesting.
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It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.
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During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
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I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders.
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The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.
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Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.
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Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.
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Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet
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Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.
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A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
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Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
