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 advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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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 am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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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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Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.
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My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.
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I dream of a vegan world - that's where I want everything to go.
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Every fan interaction I have when someone tells me they can look to their television screens and see themselves reflected in me is a dream come true.
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
