Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
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I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.
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Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
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... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
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Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
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Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease.
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The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
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The absence of disease is not health.
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The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?
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Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.
