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 just want to do my job.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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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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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure...
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I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'
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I'm cautious about a lot of words.
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How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
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You have to do what you feel comfortable with.
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Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.
