Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
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I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.
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Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.
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I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
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I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.
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If somebody I don't like gets in the crosshairs, I pull the trigger. But I don't hunt for them.
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The question of what it is to live an 'authentic life', that's a complicated one.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.
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It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.
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We should go and ask the princess for help. She seems very nice, and she’s much too beautiful to be unkind.
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'We're in control, and we have what we want!'
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How proud upon your quarterdeck you stand,Conductor, Captain of the mighty bus!Like some Columbus you survey the Strand,A calm newcomer in a sea of fuss.
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When a show is popular, sometimes the industry dismisses it.
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I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.
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If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.
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In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.
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They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.
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Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.
