Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
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In the government's eyes, the Branch Davidians were a threat.
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From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.
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Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?
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Democracy as a system of government may indeed be unprecedented in Afghanistan, but democracy as a way of life, a set of principles and values, is deeply embedded in our society.
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The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
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Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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I'm most passionate about personalization. I firmly believe that personalized experiences with brands will most drive loyalty and relevance for customers in the future.
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If you put out quality music, you're always going to be in a good place.
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What would McCarthy, what would Nixon, what would Bill Clinton have done if they'd had Twitter?
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Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well.
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I think Rudimental was a massive part of my life and such a great place and people and learning curve to be a part of.
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My style is definitely schizophrenic; it does change from day to day a lot. It depends on my mood: sometimes I'll be going through a girly, childlike stage and wear a pretty lace dress with a bow in my hair. Then sometimes I'll be moody and just wear black.
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When I look back on what I've done, I think I'm drawn to obsession, perhaps.
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In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.
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Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.
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The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
