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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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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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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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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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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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'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
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Going forward, we must continue the fight to change the direction of our country.
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When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.
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Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
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I'm happy every day.
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Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
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Because glass is at once structural and transparent, it is relatively easy to consider the integration of structural and environmental building performance within a single integrated skin.
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When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
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'She keeps trying and you’ve got to be careful or you’ll find yourself believing her, not because she seems to be telling the truth, but simply because you’re tired of disbelieving her.'
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Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.
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There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things.
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I believe in lower taxes. I believe in more efficient government. I believe in reducing bureaucracy. I believe that we shouldn't have lobbyists who can go in or former government workers who can come back and lobby.
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You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?
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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.
