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.
Terence McKenna
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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.
Karan Johar
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I think I'm more European in personality.
Sally Kirkland
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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.
Vincent Bugliosi
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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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.
Vince Lombardi
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I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It's not so popular in the States yet, but it's really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it's not always that healthy, so I don't keep it at home.
Landon Donovan
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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.
Karen Armstrong
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
Edward Witten
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I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.
Cormac McCarthy
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Every body is a book of blood;Wherever we're opened, we're red.
Clive Barker
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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.
Kathryn Harrison
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As Duke Ellington once said, 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.' ... About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.
Babe Ruth
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I love having the opportunity to perform, and I hate not being given the opportunity to perform.
Christie Laing
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I'm much more careful now about who I let into my life, but I don't think you could ever change what you're attracted to. You can make choices if you want to be with those people.
Boy George
Culture Club
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.
Sam Brownback
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And there is, I am certain, among the Iraqi people a respect for the care and the precision that went into the bombing campaign.
Donald Rumsfeld
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
Terence McKenna
