Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
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I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!
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75: The computing field is always in need of new cliches: Banality sooths our nerves.
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I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watchingyou vomit them out upon my face.
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What I did or didn't do, I think it's over now. And what I will or will not do, I think is also over.
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I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
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Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
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After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded - that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time - it's just part of it.
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I still watch Floyd fight. I learn everyday. The thing about me is, the shit he does, I picked up at 23.
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The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.
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The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth.
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The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future
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The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.
