Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.
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The bonds of trust between the United States and Israel have been frayed, but even the hostility and disrespect the Obama administration has shown has not severed those bonds.
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Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.
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People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
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After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?
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My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.
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I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.
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I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
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The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.
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I think President Obama, like myself, is a multitasker.
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One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?
