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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There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition.'
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People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd get letters from kids' mothers saying, "What's the best way to get blood stains out of my son's shirt?"
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You should never lose heart. God is merciful and kind- he has endowed you with the best gift- smile, which can make millions happy.
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You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
