Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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Organizations are trying to save extra money. Players are trying to get extra money. That's the way it is.
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
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God bless those employees at United who somehow continue to be gracious and patient and generous with customers even while bearing the brunt of a broken company themselves.
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
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I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?
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Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.
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I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me I don't wanna' wonder whether you care
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Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.
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In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!
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With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
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The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.
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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
