Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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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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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you're not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.
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His wife 'ruled the roost,' and in governing the governor, governed the province, which might thus be said to be under petticoat government.
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I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.
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Why must everybody like you?
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I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.
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I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry.
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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
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I'm not real happy that we are here this late in the session, ... But we are not going to be pushed out of town with a bad deal.
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Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
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I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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A lot of my inspiration is what straight-size women wear - why is there a disconnect from what they wear and what we can wear?
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
