Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.
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I'm not quite as anonymous as I was.
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I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
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I had a blast in the '90s, perhaps too much fun, and maybe I should have worked a lot harder and partied a lot less, but I definitely don't regret the 12 years I spent living out in L.A.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.
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After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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I try to look after myself, but I don't think it's a good thing to be obsessed with body image. I wouldn't want a son or daughter of mine to feel manipulated by that; it's the wrong message.
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The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
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You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.
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Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.
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Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.
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Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
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No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.
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I'll tell you one thing: I will always play the sh** out of my guitar.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
