Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
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Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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I put my heart in my work.
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So many people trip in front of them because they're looking over there or up ahead.
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I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.
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The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
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I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.
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I'm TV's Craig Ferguson, please sit down relax and: 'take off your pants'; 'dip your hand into a bowl of warm water and fall fast asleep'; etc.
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Status quo just means that everyone's doing it. It doesn't mean that this was divinely ordained, and of course this is the right decision.
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Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
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You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.
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There is something special and different about being a father to twin daughters.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country.
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Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.
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What helps me when someone puts me down or aims to offend me is to not take what they say personally. I try my best to not internalize their comments.
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Nigel might have an earlier date, but I think it's unprecedented from my memory. So it is a reminder to everybody that the public can move very rapidly on some issues and therefore what looks settled may not be.
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I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
