Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.
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I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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Who got the baddest pussy on the planet? D boys love me, they don't understand it.
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Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.
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Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept—wherever your imagination will take it.
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry.
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At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.
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I had to have a lot of jobs until I was supporting myself through music, but I knew that those jobs were all leading me to something. It was all, again, about taking things one step at a time, one day at a time.
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Love in my heart is a cry forever Lost as the swallow's flight, Seeking for you and never, never Stilled by the stars at night
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Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.
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It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
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The worst dream of the night, when you are parted from someone you love and you do not know exactly where he is, but you know that he is in the presence of danger. You are tormented by a desire to keep the one you love safe.
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Language betrays, in order to mean.
