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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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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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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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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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 retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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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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I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.
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I have been watching Youtube makeup tutorials since I was born. I did my own prom makeup and used to do peoples' makeup in high school for money.
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In 2012, I launched Andrew Zimmern's Canteen. Inspired by visits to street stalls and markets around the world, Andrew Zimmern's Canteen reflects the intersection of food and travel.
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Workingmen of all countries, unite, Side by side we for freedom will fight: When the world and its wealth we have gained To the grafters we'll sing this refrain: You will eat, bye and bye, When you've learned how to cook and to fry Chop some wood, 'twill do you good, And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye.
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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.
