Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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I think I'm more European in personality.
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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
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It's not easy to talk about transcendence, just as it's not easy to play or listen to a late Beethoven quartet … You have to practice quite hard, like you do with any art form. Religion is hard work.
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I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
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Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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We went online to surrogacy agencies. We interviewed lots of people - and I have to say, with all due respect, some of them were freaks. I was very leery of the process the whole way through.
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People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.
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I had maybe 200 followers when I started. A bunch of radio stations were like, 'Uhhhhhh, my daughter has more followers than her'.
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Having a team that I trust is, for me, really important.
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I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.
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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
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Funding has not kept pace with demand for expanded lanes and well-maintained roadways.
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I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
