Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.
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I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
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I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.
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You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.
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One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.
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First, you have to finish.
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And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
