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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When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
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Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.
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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.
