Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.
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This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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Haut doch die Polen, daß sie am Leben verzagen; ich habe alles Mitgefühl für ihre Lage, aber wir können, wenn wir bestehn wollen, nichts andres tun, als sie ausrotten; der Wolf kann auch nicht dafür, daß er von Gott geschaffen ist, wie er ist, und man schießt ihn doch dafür totd, wenn man kann.
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When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions. I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
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For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life.
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The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.
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My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
