Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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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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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.
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With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
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Art is the activity that exalts and denies simultaneously. 'No artist tolerates reality,' says Nietzsche.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.
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I just have to move forward and keep working on my game and getting better.
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When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.
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I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!
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Pay your people the least possible and you'll get from them the same.
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On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.
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I'm always fascinated by the innocence of children and the baggage that we carry as adults which manipulates our decisions.
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People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
