Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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My sister and I had a tough childhood, but my mom always said that travelling is the most beautiful thing you can do in your life. She always showed us the globe and gifted me an atlas.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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I get a lot of comments from people that I remind them of a young Tom Hanks.
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I want to be a better parent than I had. Even though my mom was absolutely amazing. Her and I are still best friends to this day. I think that the next generation should always be better and better.
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I have the opportunity to do that right now, to try to work as hard as I can to really leave my footprint in this game that has given me so much.
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Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
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It is important to remember when making jokes about women, that they are not a minority. They weren't captured on another continent and brought here in leg-irons (funny shoes, yes, but not leg-irons) and Hitler didn't blame them for Germany's loss in WWI. Therefore, you can make any kind of fun of them you want.
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It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.
