Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.
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Every adverse development across the world affects the rest of the world in some way.
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We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
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I was the worst, most sickly kid of all – 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.
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Our top schools are obsessed with race, class, and gender but apparently not rigorous in cross-examining the fables and pop fads of their students.
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The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
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Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no 'Nigerians' in the same sense as there are 'English,' 'Welsh,' or 'French.' The word 'Nigerian' is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not.
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I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.
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Again, we just blew our chance, it's that simple. I'll be the first one to take the blame. Everyone's a part of it. To the credit of our players, they put us in position after being .500 for the better part of the season, but we told them going into the Dayton game this team will be remembered positively or negatively by what happened in March. There will be some negative memories about this season because of what happened in March. That's the cold, hard reality.
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I think working with kids and seeing how kids are universally children - no matter what you do, they love playing on a bongo and they love drawing and they love playing - that is a great uniter.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
