Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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My first memory of the Harry Potter series was my little brother just falling into those books and not resurfacing until he was done. That J.K. Rowling got an entire generation reading is extraordinary - I'm amazed, thrilled, and proud to now be portraying one of that phenomenal writer's characters.
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It is well for one to know more than he says.
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The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.
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I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.
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Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies.
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It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
