Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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I like to pour my wines for people. I watch their eyes, I can see what they'll like. Most people say they don't like dry wine because they haven't had a dry wine that's clean and fruity, instead of a big, oaky thing.
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That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
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Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.
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I have no idea what I’m doing, and that’s kind of how I love it.
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There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.
