Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
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As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
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What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
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If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
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It takes madness to find out madness.
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The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.
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Walking through this life really is walking through fire.
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The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.
