Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
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Animals, these beings trappedAs I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,Aging, but without knowledge of their age,Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death- Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!The world goes by my cage and never sees me.
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In 1946, when I was still an adolescent, I went and signed my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic 'realistico-imaginary' voyage.
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'Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?' His face screwed itself up comically. 'You may get more than you bargain for.'
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My goal keeps me alive, and no personal issue is going to interfere with that. If people try to put me in the crazy box–'crazy fucking Courtney'–go ahead. But if you think you’re going to stop me from where I’m going, you’re not going to do it. I work my ass off. I deliver the goddamn goods. And I will deliver them again.
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My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.
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What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
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For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
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Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
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The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
