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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Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
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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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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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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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It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.
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I still credit Adrian Lester with being one of my biggest influences.
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I think there's something to be said for being physical in acting.
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Human beings are social creatures. We are social not just in the trivial sense that we like company, and not just in the obvious sense that we each depend on others. We are social in a more elemental way: simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction with other people.
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Paulo Coelho's 'The Alchemist' means a lot to me.
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The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.
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I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.
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Seeing Donald Trump run for and then win the presidency only enhanced my commitment to helping people free themselves from ridiculous body standards and disordered eating so they can use their gifts for more fulfilling things, like being of service and enjoying this beautiful world.
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Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake to revere your past.
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Looking back now, I can see that my dad was a real fighter. A lot of people thought, 'Why don't you keep the Jewish stuff quiet?' They were anti-Semitic Jews. People who were afraid. People who came here and made it and anglicized themselves and didn't want to associate with their past.
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I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
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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.
