Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I like being unconventional.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can’t be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They’re probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn’t be elected governor of the state of Illinois.
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Indeed, it is not too much to say that the normal relation of States is war.
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I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.
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When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
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I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
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Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.
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The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?
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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
