Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
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I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
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Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.
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I save everything up until Sunday night because if I start sending emails on Saturday afternoon, then people have to start responding to me on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
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The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
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The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.
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Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.
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No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
