Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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I love cycling.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That's what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
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Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.
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On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.
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At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.
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I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
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Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.
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Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
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As a child who lived in a lot of places, one of the hardest things for me was to join a new community. It was hardest at the kibbutz, but that was also one of the most impressive communities.
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I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that's the thing that I'm not so comfortable with.
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When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.
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I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.
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I just want to play baseball.
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All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.
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The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.
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I've taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life.
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They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
