Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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My main focus is to help people through music.
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I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.
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The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I'm always working. I work wherever I am.
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This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.
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The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
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I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.
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The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
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I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.
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The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
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All I want to do is change the world.
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After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.
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Age only matters when one is aging. Now that I have arrived at a great age, I might as well be twenty.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel.
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In avant garde drama ... primitivism goes hand in hand with aesthetic experimentation designed to advance the technical progress of the art itself by exploring fundamental questions: What is a theatre? What is a play? What is an actor? What is a spectator? What is the relation between them all? What conditions serve this best?
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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
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Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
