Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
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Be Nice. Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. I admit it's not easy when you've got a gripe. To be agreeable while disagreeing - that's an art. Be natural - write the way you talk.
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Epops: Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city? ... Euelpides: Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name. Pisthetaerus: Would you 'Cloud-cuckoo-land?' (tr. Warter 1830, p. 215)
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.
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Well, there's nothing more touching than putting a smile on a kid's face when you can.
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Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.
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I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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What kid doesn't want to pretend they're James Bond?
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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
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For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.
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The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.
