Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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My health is fine.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.
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We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.
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It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women’s advantage.
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'All stories are true,' Skarpi said. 'But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.' He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. 'More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.'
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Cynicism is just an excuse for not helping.
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I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.
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I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.
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Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.
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I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
