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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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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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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There's no regrets for me.
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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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I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes, and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute.
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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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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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I was a rabid 'Seinfeld' fan. Then I did the show, and it ruined the show for me. Not that it ruined the quality of the show, but I had seen behind the curtain at Oz.
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The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.
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I was joined by Carlo Rovelli, and we were able to make a full-fledged quantum theory of gravity... This became loop quantum gravity.
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Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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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.
