Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.
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I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.
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After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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I try to look after myself, but I don't think it's a good thing to be obsessed with body image. I wouldn't want a son or daughter of mine to feel manipulated by that; it's the wrong message.
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The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
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You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
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Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
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I've got my huge Greek family. I mean, I don't know how many cousins I have - I can't even keep track. There are just so many of us, and we love all Greek food - we have Greek night every Sunday night.
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I'm a simple, simple man.
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Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.
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A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I discovered that the plot had been owned by a family, and the son had gone off to World War I and been killed. It began to interest me: What would have happened on that land if the son had lived, had brought up his own family there?
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Creativity is a continual surprise.
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Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.
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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.
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We need to stop making what people did to us bigger than what Jesus did for us.
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Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
