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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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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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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I've been in relationships where I've felt terribly alone. Just because you're with someone, it doesn't mean you're happy.
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They're trying to exterminate our race. I think, probably in a moral sense, the Jewish people have been a blight. I mean as a whole, not every Jew. And they probably deserve to go into the ashbin of history. But saying that and actually shooting or killing people in masses, are two different things. I'm not advocating extermination. I think the best thing is to resettle them in someplace where they can't exploit others. And I don't think they can live among themselves, I really don't.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.
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Language betrays, in order to mean.
