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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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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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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If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
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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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I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
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I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.
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When I was 9, I auditioned for an arts school in Toronto with a few of my friends. The sole reason we auditioned was that we found out you got to miss a couple days of school to do the audition. Without actually wanting to go to arts school, I accidentally got in. My parents encouraged me to try it, and I ended falling in love with performing.
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I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
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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.
