Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.
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It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.
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As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.
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I find it an effort to keep up appearances.
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I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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My grandmother flew only once in her life, and that was the day she and her new husband ascended into the skies of Victorian London in the wicker basket of a hot-air balloon. They were soon to emigrate to Canada, and the aerial ride was meant to be a last view of their beloved England.
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A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U.
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I've got more low notes than I had when I started.
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I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.
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I'm drawn to the way Havaianas capture playfulness and light-heartedness in their products - there is clearly an element of fun.
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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.
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Production is the only answer to inflation.
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My mum used to always say to me, 'What's meant for you won't pass you by,' and it's true. If I didn't get something, it wasn't meant for me.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.
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He was always very nice. What I remember more than meeting Connie Mack was meeting Honus Wagner when he was a coach for the Pirates.
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I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
