Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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I love Japan; it's very special.
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I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
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We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.
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I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
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I take the no-doughnut pledge, and then I break it.
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I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British example, actually. And there will never be another Annette Funicello. I suppose it's the slight starchiness of the innocence that makes it unrepeatable.
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Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.
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For here, am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world. Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do... Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still - and I think my spaceship knows which way to go. Tell my wife I love her very much.
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Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.
