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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I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before.
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The season is not over. This is Week 17 and we want to finish strong. I can rest later. They pay me to play.
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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.
