Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was - and loved it all.
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I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.
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Technology is a nerdy field. That's why I called myself a 'geek.' It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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You know, I would say Incomplete...but what I would say is the steps that we have taken in saving the auto industry, in making sure that college is more affordable and investing in clean energy and science and technology and research, those are all the things that we are going to need to grow over the long term.
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I had cut a typing class because I hated to type, and I still don't know how to type, but now I can afford to have people type for me.
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The third day, I knew it was over. But I tried to make it last for three months.
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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
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You don’t stop caring, champ. You still care about that little girl whose underpants you saw in kindergarten. Once you care, you always care. That’s how stupid we are.
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Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition.
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To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
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I sort of see cannabis as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.
