Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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People don't want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
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We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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With all respect, why do you give crap countries a vote?
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Nadie entiende que lo has dado todo. Debes dar más.
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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.
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You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.
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I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
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An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.
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Parvesh Cheena is a real treat for the ladies.
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What happens to a lot of artists in the music industry right now is the following: The music industry is plummeting real fast. So as the industry plummets, what happens is that there is no deals being made.
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There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as racist; still racism persists, real and tenacious.
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The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
