Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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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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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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The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.
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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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I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if I've earned that.
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One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying
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Children know something that most people have forgotten.
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But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.
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We are the people and America is really nothing without the people. We have to take control and we have realize as young people that this is our future. We have to live here and this where we'll one day raise our own children.
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
