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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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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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 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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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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Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
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Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleepI wonder if the years have closed her mindI guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get freeFrom the good old faithful feeling we once knewCarefree highway, let me slip away on youCarefree highway you seen better days..
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The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state.
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I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.
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Spirituality isn't a luxury. It's a must.
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We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left better than we found it.
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I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.
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You can't just let nature run wild. A tree looking at a tree really doesn't do anything.
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No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.
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I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
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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.
