Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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I don't regard myself as a cracking good climber. I'm just strong in the back. I have a lot of enthusiasm, and I'm good on ice.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
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Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Football is my true love. I played with boys until I was 11 and then for a girls' club in Middlesbrough until I was 16.
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Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
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I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
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Now my tapestry's unraveling.
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The art of love is who you share it with.
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I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.
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To be honest, it's nothing but a compliment. It's amazing to be compared to them... Vanessa would be Party Spice, I'd say Una would be Feisty Spice, Frankie could be Flirty Spice, and Mollie would be Smiley Spice.
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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.
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The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.
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When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.
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I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
