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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After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'
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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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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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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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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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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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Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.
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Certainly, there is, in our culture, this notion of, you know, you can become anything. You can change.
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There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.
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I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
