Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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I receive many letters from people hoping to research their own houses.
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
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If I am in Sweden, I try to get home to be with my children. I can do work after that from home.
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I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.
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At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.
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Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.
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I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.
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You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.
