Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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There's been a progression in my sound.
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It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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Foucault, like David Letterman, made smirking glibness an art form.
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Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.
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Both Shah Rukh and Aamir have taught me a lot. I used to be their fan. I had seen all their movies. Once I had even taken Aamir's autograph! Then all of a sudden, I was facing the camera with him! The way these two looked after me and saw me through my initial scenes is something I can never forget.
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‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
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I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
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People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.
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It is very nice to have good actors with you.
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I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away their publishing or take most of the infrastructure that's included in a formal deal.
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Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
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Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.
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Sometimes, the startup game works in your favor just because you got in at the right time and right environment. Other times, you're a little too late entering an already crowded space. But startups with strong fundamentals withstand external conditions and come out ahead in good or bad times.
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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
