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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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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I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is someway.
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William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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Deeds may speak more compellingly than words,but I believe words have their place too. A man who has both is gifted indeed.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
