Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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Health care providers, saving lives daily in our emergency rooms, live with federal mandates.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die.
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On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming convention, the Kyoto protocol, when the U.S. went its own way.
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I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.
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Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.
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Sport is a great way to keep fit. It's a stress reliever.
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I have routines but not superstitions.
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Loving one another isn’t enough to make a relationship last. The real glue that holds a couple (or friends or family) together is the effort both put into helping others who are in need of financial, health, personal or emotional assistance. Today, sustain your connection to a loved one by finding ways you both can help others, with a genuine heart.
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Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and color. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and color, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary color.
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You ask 'What is life?' That is the same as asking 'What is a carrot?' A carrot is a carrot and we know nothing more.
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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
