Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
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The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.
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Seattle is a fantastic place to build a great technology-enabled consumer company.
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I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!
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Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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I would be surprised... if someone at CBS wasn't thinking that eventually Johnny's gonna retire and if we have somebody in place, we'll be in good shape.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
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I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks.
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I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.
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The media has been nice to me so far, but if I get compared to Channing one more time I'm taking it as a compliment, but it is crazy how many times people have compared me to him. I don't know if 'Magic Mike' is in my future, but we'll see.
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You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.
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What me and my girls are about is being confident in yourself.
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For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.
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DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
