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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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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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 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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From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.
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It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.
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We want the people of Japan to know that the people of Hawaii welcome them to the Hawaiian Islands.
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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.
