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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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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I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.
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Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.
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It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
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I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.
