Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.
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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.
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The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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I grew up in New York.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.
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To paraphrase Robin Williams’s compelling teacher character in Dead Poets Society: We don’t study poetry to get an “A,” to graduate, to get a job, to make money, to meet material needs. Rather, “we read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering . . . these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love . . . these are what we stay alive for.
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You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.
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Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.
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When my blood pressure goes up, my Spanish stuff kicks in.
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I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
