Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I played quarterback, and it was a leadership position, and even though I'm doing a solo thing now, a lot of my success is a part of assembling this team of people who are really, really talented, and their position doesn't put them out front the way mine does, but it's still a team effort.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.
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To be 49 years old now and still be called The Kid, that's kind of special.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
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Germany will regard the Jewish question as solved only after the very last Jew has left the greater German living space... Europe will have its Jewish question solved only after the very last Jew has left the continent.
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We don't hire ministers or priests to teach and care for us. This forces us to teach and care for each other - and in my view, this is the core of Christian living as Christ taught it.
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When somebody grabs a movement, you're kind of locked into it. It's all par for the course.
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The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.
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I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
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What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?
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I would never find myself or unlikely to find myself in a room where I have a skeptic who brought me in. But I very often am in a situation somebody who's there who didn't invite me was a skeptic. That happens all the time.
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The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.
