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.

  

  Karen Bender
  • People
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  • Weird

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Better
  • Playing
  • Getting

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
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• I had a very modest upbringing.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Very
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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.

  

  Dan Stevens
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  • Idea
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• Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Intelligent
  • Intention

• I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Character
  • Perfect
  • Just

• I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Read
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  • Newspaper

• 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.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Thinking
  • Doing
  • Cold

• 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.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Feel
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• 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.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Feeling
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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.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Best
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• It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Sea
  • River

• These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Perfect

• 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

  

  Fetty Wap
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• Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Dream

• I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.

  

  Jonathan Groff

• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
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  • Men

• I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • World
  • She
  • Power

• The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Tension
  • Feminine