Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart, And makes his pulses fly,To catch the thrill of a happy voice And the light of a pleasant eye.
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I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.
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The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.
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I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
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I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.
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I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.
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Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
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I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.
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The thing that kept bringing us back to Pete's movie is that it was a story about real people. It (also) had a very specific locale; Chicago is to this movie what Boston was to 'Good Will Hunting,' ... It was enormously heartfelt and, ultimately, nobody could deny being moved by his story.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
