Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
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I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.
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I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
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When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.
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I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
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It sounds bad, but they don't care about your age if you're famous.
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I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.
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People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.
