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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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
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Beauty is that to what the human mind responds at its deepest and most profound.
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As an actress, if you find inspiration through my work, then my job is complete.
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Even though I played in the NBA, we tried to give our kids as normal a life as possible. We gave them everything they needed, not everything they wanted, and they had to work for what they wanted. I think that mentality helped.
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Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.
