Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
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I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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When I'm not longer rappin', I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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It was Skrillex who got me into dubstep. He made it melodic - not just a bunch of crazy sounds.
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Actors are, in a sense, like athletes. They've got to stretch once in a while.
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All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
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Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.
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I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.
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The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
