Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.
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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.
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My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.
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Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
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Dates are great because they're a high-energy fruit with a lot of fiber.
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
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Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
