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 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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Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.
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I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.
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I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess! The experience of reading the novel keeps deepening for me.
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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
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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.
