Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
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A lot of my music is very roots-oriented, and that's country and soul. I've been in every roadhouse in the South, soaking in all of that... Nashville is like a second home to me, and I'm just gravitating toward the songs.
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I don't have any stress. I'm very lucky. I live a very healthy life.
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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
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Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf
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There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
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I will simply call attention to the fact that it is an ideal utterly inconsistent with that of those Communists who falsely call themselves Anarchists while at the same time advocating a regime of Archism fully as despotic as that of the State Socialists themselves.
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
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Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.
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I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'
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I want people to understand that there is a group of Christians out there who want to be more open and understanding and tolerant and loving of all kinds of people, even the people that don't believe in God at all.
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I go around the country sharing my story. I aim to dare other people to go deep into their own stories and hope to inspire them to think about their own world and experiences.
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You must be aware that most men, and also not only a few women, are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
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I have, perhaps, too professional a point of view where deaths are concerned. They are divided, in my mind, into two classes - deaths which are my affair and deaths which are not my affair - and though the latter class is infinitely more numerous - nevertheless whenever I come in contact with death I am like the dog who lifts his head and sniffs the scent.
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If I'm working on a poem, it's at the forefront of my mind; I'm working on it when I'm cooking dinner or stretched out on the sofa. But if I don't really have it by the 10th draft, I know it just isn't going to jell.
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It is going to be a challenge for them, there is no doubt in my mind. But if they run the operation professionally and with Iowans in mind, I think they have a shot.
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Law and order comes from having respect for one another.
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The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
