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 remember the first script I wrote after 'Swingers' was a Western, and I just couldn't get it made.
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As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.
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I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.'
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We always have visions, before a thing is made real. When we realize that although the vision is real, it is not real in us, then is the time that Satan comes in with his temptations, and we are apt to say that it is no use to go on. Instead of the vision becoming real, there has come the valley of humiliation.
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The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.
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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.
