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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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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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
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In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much.
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Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.
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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.
