Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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My father was a lawyer.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.
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It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'
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I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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Love. Such a lot of damn fuss.
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This created world really helped me as an actor. It heightened everything, which made it more dangerous, more interesting and more liberating.
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Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.
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Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.
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I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.
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Beauty does not last forever.
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The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
