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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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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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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If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.
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My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.
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To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.
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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
