Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
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I am a guy who likes those who drive through red lights.
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I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
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I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
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So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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In a society of employees dominated by the marketing mentality, it is inevitable that a personality market should arise. For in the great shift from manual skills to the art of 'handling', selling and servicing people, personal or even intimate traits of employees are drawn into the sphere of exchange and become commodities in the labor market.
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
