Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
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When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.
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Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.
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Bob Newhart, who is my best friend, is one of the guys I adore.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
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Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won't last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don't realise that.
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The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.
