Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.
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Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They 'want' that. And it's good policy.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.
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Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.
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When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they'd ask 'Did you do this?'. And I'd say, 'No, you did.'
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See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.
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Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.
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This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.
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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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We cannot all be masters.
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You don't leave the film alone. You have a new audience, and you have a new medium. Why would you leave it alone? Film is not an antique. It's not a relic. It's not a Leonardo da Vinci. I don't want someone painting over a da Vinci or Rembrandt. But these movies aren't that.
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Dramas for me are where it's at, but a great drama, a great character-driven drama, there's very few of them that get made; there's very few of them that actually make it to theaters. There's just very few of them.
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We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.
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It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.
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Good things matter, even when they don't last forever.
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My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
