Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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The point of the future is that anything can happen.
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Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
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'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.
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The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
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I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
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If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.
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The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
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Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.
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Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
