Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
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While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
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I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
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Ma 'l populo facea come i più fanno,Ch'ubbidiscon più a quei che più in odio hanno.
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A fiancé is neither this nor that: he’s left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
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I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
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A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.
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I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
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You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
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Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
