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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Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
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If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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People would ask me why I was doing what I was doing – but I always told them that I just loved to skate. There was no other explanation.
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The school system should be used purely for academia and not for social experiments.
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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.
