Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.
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To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
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Woman are complex creatures.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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Think about doing a bunch of stunts in leather. What does leather do? It doesn't stretch, it rips.
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Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
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A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgment suffers.
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Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.
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I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.
