Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.
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Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.
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Chefs have only been able to work in restaurants, high-end cuisine. Why? Why haven't they been able to find other scenarios? For those chefs who want to do avant-garde cuisine, should they be finding their income in a restaurant?
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Our D.V.R.s make up the schedule of the shows that we're passionate about. You want Jon Stewart? You've got it. Your D.V.R. will give that to you, as opposed to making the destination and the choice to spend that evening with a network.
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I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted her at the time of making the vow. She had no objection.
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There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.
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I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.
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I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden you pull your eyes down, and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.
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I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
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I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
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I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
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We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country.
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Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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