Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

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• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  

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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

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• For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  

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• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

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• A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'

  

  Jack Lowden
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• When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.

  

  Becky Lynch
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• I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

  

  Kate McKinnon
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• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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  • Ship

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
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  • Passion

• At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Time
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• If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • You
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• I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Up
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• I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.

  

  Zac Brown Band
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• In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.

  

  Hannah Kent
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• You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• Businesses across the country are raising their prices in order to compensate for their added costs due to Obama's health care plan. If they aren't raising prices, they're cutting jobs as a result of the added cost, both of which hurt our economy.

  

  Pam Bondi
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• The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.

  

  Tahl Raz
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• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

  

  Karl Marx
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• The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.

  

  Tobias Menzies
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  • Way

• The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

  

  Jimmy Carter
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  • Poor People

• Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Writing
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• Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Reality
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• For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Reality
  • Years