Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.
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We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
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She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones.
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The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
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The fight for a truly inclusive nation that embraces its diversity is not over and perhaps will never be.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.
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I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.
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Alanis Morissette - I think she's one of my biggest inspirations.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
