Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.
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Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.
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When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.
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The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
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I have found the study of organisms to be a truly exciting experience, always interesting and sometimes humbling.
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Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.
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I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
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If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes.
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It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose, it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall, making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had still appeared to be a living beauty.
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The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
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The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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The street has its own use for things.
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We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
