Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
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If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I have a job to do on policy. And I think that's what people want their governor to do. Not politics, policy.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.
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The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.
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Perhaps the single most robust fact across many surveys is that married people are happier than anyone else.
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Only a fool loves war. Or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.
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To a world sick with racism, get well soon.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
