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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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 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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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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Sex is emotion in motion.
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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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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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Always contented with his life,and with his dinner, and his wife.
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Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war Vietnam, vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfare for half-baked reasons that the American people could not understand.
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Folly always knows the answer.
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The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact.
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People ask me what it was like working with Jim Carrey. Well, I never really saw too much of him. I would talk to him on the set, but I was looking at a Grinch facade. It was his voice and all, but... Jim is amazing to watch in front of the camera. I learned a lot from him. He was also always very nice and generous to me.
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Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call 'all the nooks and crannies' of the person.
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If you cultivate a relationship in a genuine, thoughtful way, people will be more inclined to want to help you even though they don't have to help you.
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Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.
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In many ways, leadership is about defining reality and inspiring hope, but if you have these great people around you and they know that what they do is going to be recognized, it can be incredibly powerful.
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It wasn't until high school that I realized Avenged Sevenfold was picking up locally.
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Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another, intertwining of external and internal factors, and adaptive processes which overcome impediments that the child encounters.
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I prefer to tell stories. If it's funny, then I want to do it on stage.
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I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.
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By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries.
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Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
