Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I basically raised myself.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
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Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
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If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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I could not do this, I realized, if I were immortal. This degree of love of life and of one another is granted, I saw for once and for ever, not to immortals, but to those who live briefly and always under the shadow of death and loss.
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My hair journey has been lots of fun. I have always loved wigs and pieces, so I am never tied down to one style.
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I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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No one knows enough to worry.
