Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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I just want to do my job.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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I am married.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.
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Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who loves has somehow discovered the meaning of ultimate reality. He who hates does not know God; he who hates has no knowledge of God. Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.
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Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
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Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.
