Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.
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We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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I've never been good at saying no.
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Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...
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I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."
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I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich.
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Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
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I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.
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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
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When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.
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You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.
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Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.
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When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
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I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.
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When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.
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If woman wants to have kids and work a little less she has a big disadvantage compared to a male colleague who has a stay-at-home wife packing his suitcases.
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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
