Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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Businesses across the country are raising their prices in order to compensate for their added costs due to Obama's health care plan. If they aren't raising prices, they're cutting jobs as a result of the added cost, both of which hurt our economy.
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The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.
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I love to play with Tony and Bill anytime, anywhere.
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There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
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You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.
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The hardest thing to do is to trust people.
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Our ambitions are not limited to quarterly results. Our ambitions are linked to a belief in what we do. And one of the definite privileges of success is being able to see beyond yourself.
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Poetry is meant to be heard.
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The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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I've been standing with and united with the gay community. I know so many gay men and women that homophobia is such a baffling thing for me.
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I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.
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It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
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For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
