Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.
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It's so easy to get used to playing a role. Then all of the sudden when you're tossed out of it, it's almost like you have to remember how to act again!
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I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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There is no substitute for a real location when you're trying to shoot the jungle. You can't just go anywhere. You've got to go where it's lush and green and there really is those mountain ranges, the trees and the ocean.
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Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.
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I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.
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It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.
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You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.
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During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere, like being in the middle of a silent fireworks display.
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I'm pretty easy going, I think.
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If immigration reform was easy, Congress would have dealt with it 15 years ago.
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According to Eshin's 'Essentials of Salvation,' the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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We Circumvent the Natives. We arose on the following morning with the dawn of day, and began to make preparation for our departure.
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
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My favorite way to cook a clam is in chowder. I was a New Yorker for 20 years, and I always loved tomato-based, celery-heavy Manhattan chowders.
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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.
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Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
