Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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I just don't think it's appropriate talking about family stuff publicly.
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The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
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Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.
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I don't know karate, but I know ka-razy!
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
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At this point of my life, I'm 32 and I feel sexier than ever because you know what you want.
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I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
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We got the Hawks I aint talking about the Peach state
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The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.
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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.
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People know that I'm going to do what's right.
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As an author, you're really grateful for the people who are supporting you, but on some other level, that can be a dangerous echo chamber.
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.
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A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
