Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
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I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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Ariana Grande was on a TV show, and then she started her career singing. If I'm offered a TV show, I'm going to pursue that and then see if I can push my singing. And then if I push my singing, awesome. My biggest goal, though? Be an actress in movies. I would love to have a career like Meryl Streep's someday.
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No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation of our own solar system - as well as the solar systems beyond.
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The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.
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And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
