Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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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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I was a slightly overweight, spiky-fringed, rat's-tailed '80s girl who was just showing up. That's all I've ever really done to get here, just kept showing up. Even when I didn't want to. That's what I do.
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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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I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them.
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The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
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Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
