Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.
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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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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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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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'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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On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.
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For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.
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I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.
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My son has made me more politically active when it comes to LGBTQ rights. When he came out, I worried about what the world was going to be like for him.
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I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.
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I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.
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Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.
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I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.
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I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.
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My record shows that I have put my country first, and I follow the philosophy and traditions of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
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There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
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I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.
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The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.
