Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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What are you going to do now? You'll collect loves like stamps. You've got doubles and no one will trade with you. And you've got damaged ones
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You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others.
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And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.
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The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.
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You don't know how to take off your suit of armor. You have no idea how to conduct yourself without the reference point of your own security... You can expose your wounds and flesh, your sore points. You can be completely raw and exposed.
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Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.
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I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.
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What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.
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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
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Each man believes only his experience.
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Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
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I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.
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We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
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She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.
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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
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For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.
