Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
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I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
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Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly.
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There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.
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I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.
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My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.
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No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
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The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.
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Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
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There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.
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The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.
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We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.
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Me?" All the crappiness of the day, of the last few weeks, zeroed in on this high and mighty B with an itch, and the scared-rabbit feeling faded.
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Obama hasn't shown the leadership that has allowed the center to go towards him. He's got his base now after the stimulus bill, after the latest jobs plan, but he doesn't have the center. The center is wide open.
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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.
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The overflow of big money in politics drowns out the voices of everyday people. That is part of the conundrum in America: The more money you have the more speech you have. That leaves everyday people out of the equation.
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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
