Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

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• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
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• Courage is found in unlikely places.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
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• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  

  Garth Ennis
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• The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.

  

  Auguste Rodin
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• Once upon a time, I was a climate-change skeptic.

  

  James Balog
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• I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

  

  David Caruso
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• I'm certainly not an uptight home owner.

  

  Drew Barrymore
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• I'm working relentlessly at becoming a better fighter than I was yesterday. I think I've really shown that I'm a more evolved fighter these days than I've ever been.

  

  Alistair Overeem

• To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.

  

  James Clavell
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• The teacher you need is the person you’re living with.

  

  Byron Katie
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• The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.

  

  Alex Trebek
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• O Lord...

  

  Rabia Basri
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• There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

  

  C. Terry Warner
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• The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.

  

  Alice Waters
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• I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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• Honestly, I don't know enough about what's a good timeslot and what isn't. Either you have a timeslot where nobody is really tuning in, which isn't good, or you're in a good hour, and then you've got a lot of competition.

  

  Jason Katims
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• There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open (and then I see Annabel in such general terms as: "honey-colored skin," "thin arms," "brown bobbed hair," "long lashes," "big bright mouth"); and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, on the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors (and this is how I see Lolita).

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• You always have to appeal to your audience. You always have to consider how well your project will do in terms of admissions. I abandoned many stories because of that. But I don't get too down about it. It's something I accepted from the time I decided to work in films.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
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• What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
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