Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I want to be known as A.J. Styles, the WWE Superstar that he is, and have amazing matches, make memories - I think that's the goal.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
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I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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We cannot accept the fact that Jews wouldn't be entitled to live and buy anywhere in Jerusalem. I can only imagine what would happen if someone suggested Jews could not live in certain neighborhoods in New York, London, Paris or Rome. There would certainly be a major international outcry.
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My ideal is that what we should do is to, to also rise above that and to achieve true non-racialism.
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It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.
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You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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I had no acting background in my family and no experience of theatre. I hadn't even been in a school play.
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Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor's palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
