Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign.
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I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.
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Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it.
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You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
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I'd been going to school up to the third term of year 11 at MLC, and there was no point in dropping out. Having gone through Year 12, there's so much that helps you acquire the knowledge you need. It helps you in life.
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A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
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But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.
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Uninsured people don't just slink off into a corner and die. They seek treatment, but usually when it is an emergency, and this will be the most expensive kind of care available.
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Finishing what you started is important.
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You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
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In Sweden, if a player has the ball, and you're running across the line of vision, you would never call for the ball. In the United States, if you're open, you're screaming.
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I didn't go in there and tell them I think you should move me, but I also understand the nature of this business.
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You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.
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The shows weren't organized at all. They just happened.
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I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.
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At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I've worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and essential contribution they are making to our mission.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
