Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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Elves are cool, man.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.
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Most people out there are just trying to keep their job and provide for their family. If climate change is now a once-in-a-mortgage problem, and if food prices start to spike, people will pay attention.
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
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We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.
