Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol.
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When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.
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I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.
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Be just before you're generous.
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For women raised in the '70s, high heels can still carry a stigma; they're associated with being stupid, with just wanting to please a man. Other women find them empowering.
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The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
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God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.
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When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.
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You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.
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I think it's quite difficult to follow in your parent's footsteps in the same sport.
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As far as people I'd like to work with, the list is endless. I think to work with Steve McQueen would be amazing, and then some of the U.K. talent we have: Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman, both of whom I have met and admired for a long time. We're very blessed in this country; there is so much talent for people to work with and learn from.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists.
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Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.
