Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
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I actually didn't always want to be an actor.
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Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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Wherever there are communities fighting for freedom and liberation, there are serious tensions.
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
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Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
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At a certain point, Mike Tyson and I reacted to violence a little differently. I was afraid to leave my house for three years while he became the heavyweight champion of the world. The thing was, at first, we reacted to it the same way, and our cowardice and trauma defined us.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
