Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.
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The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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I wake up in the morning, all I think is flipCount a couple hundreds, flip a couple bricksTime to hit the plug now, need another flipCounting all this money, got me filthy rich
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Sabbath, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.
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Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.
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I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.
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He was possibly mentally ill, though he had never been diagnosed, inside or outside of prison. He was angry, abusive and hostile for a long while.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
