Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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In my last scene in 'Breaking Dawn,' Bella has just died and I run outside and crumple to the ground and just lose it. I'm bawling. That was my last scene of 'Twilight' ever and I definitely had some extra motivation.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
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Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
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A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others.
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For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.
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But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true.
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If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.
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The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.
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Businesses will have to lead the charge - demanding uniform, national, predictable rules to govern this transition, so that there is a level and rational playing field on which they can compete to make the next fortunes.
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What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
