Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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It's funny because before I joined the cast of 'Heroes,' I was an insomniac. I have suffered from insomnia for, like, so long. Now that I'm on the show, seriously - I sleep like a baby. I'm so tired all the time.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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I can be a guy's guy and go to a game. But at the end of the night, I can still get dressed up for a date. There are a million different personalities that are part of me.
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Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how Francis suggests that not only God but also secular politics must outrank economic imperatives.
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I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older I realize that I'm walking even closer with my God.
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I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
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Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.
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I like to be bold and different and to go and try things.
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I am a rune a carrot a little joke
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Short-cuts lead to long delays.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.
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In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.
