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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People need jobs and those types of ideological protests that get in the way are not going to be tolerated by ordinary Canadians.
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I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.
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Peacefulness is an inner sense of calm - it comes from becoming still - in order to reflect and meditate on our inner wisdom and receive answers. A peaceful heart is one that is free from worry and rouble. It's becoming quiet so we can look at things quietly so we can more clearly understand them and thus come up with creative solutions. It is learning to live in the present. Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
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I feel that where I came from made me the actor that I am, and I wouldn't want to trade that with anything else.
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Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.
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No one knows enough to worry.
