Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
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Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.
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What is the world coming to?
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Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.
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I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
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I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
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Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.
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I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.
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Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
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Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich.
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I wanted to make sure that I did one movie in my career that mothers hug me for.
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I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.
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The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.
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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
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I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.
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A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.
