Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.
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I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
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It Nobel Peace Prize is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.
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It is a fact that Mussolini entered the scene of world politics as an ally of the democracies, while Lenin entered it as a virtual ally of imperial Germany.
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Ultimately I am an employee of a corporation, and that’s weird, and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.
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It is a shame. A shame! If you believe this is a bad idea to provide health care - then vote no! But don't give me the cowardly view that 'Oh, if it was a different procedure.'
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.
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I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.
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Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.
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The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.
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(He was) tall and lean, an aristocrat by inclination, born into money and influence and never recovered.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
