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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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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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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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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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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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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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'm always challenged by someone.
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
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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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Being brave doesn't mean never being afraid, you know. It means going for it anyway because you know it's the right thing to do.
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Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
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I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.
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I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.
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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
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Language betrays, in order to mean.
