Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at the students' union in early 1999, when I was 21. It's 100 pages long: a very traditional play, with an interval, about deserters in the First World War.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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I can travel with music. I close my eyes, and I can travel all over the world with music. And one after another, stories come to me, and I just record them.
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
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It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.
