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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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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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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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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Having even just one relationship with an online influencer can have a significant impact on your business.
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The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
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You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and Richard Dawkins's theories. That's what I care about.
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There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.
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That's what the founding fathers intended, that most decisions be made at the state level, not at the federal level.
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One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else's job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me - and just lay me off.' I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic.
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I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.
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There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.
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I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.
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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.
