Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.
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Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.
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There's been times where I sold the place out, and I walked in and the guy's like, 'Uh, ID?' 'No, you can't ID me, man. I just sold this place out.' People are just doing their jobs, but I think if you're working the door at a venue where there's a headliner, you should at least be like, 'OK, this is the dude.'
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.
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I tell a story, and therefore I exist.
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
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I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.
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I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.
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Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
