Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
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Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
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All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.
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At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.
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All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.
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The moral precept to adopt...is: Judge, and be prepared to be judged.
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Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.
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If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.
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I feel like I've come off as an outspoken woman. Sometimes I think I've come off as confrontational. But I feel like it's been pretty fair. Those are parts of me.
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I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
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If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.
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Nothing makes us angrier than the fear that some pleasure is being enjoyed by others but forever denied to us.
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I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.
