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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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 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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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
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If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
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The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?'
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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I think romantic comedies in general are marketed towards women, and I think men are half the romance, so why not have some that are truly from a male point of view.
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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
