Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
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I have always been a movie buff and had no interest in any games and sports. I do not even watch cricket, which is one of the favourite games of most of my friends. However, I have become a wrestling fan after 'Dangal.'
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
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I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don't need, and I refuse to share with others.
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As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
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Believe, and what was impossible becomes possible what at first was hidden becomes visible.
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A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
