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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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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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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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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The Fed's policy choices can always be debated, but the quality and commitment of the Federal Reserve as a public institution is second to none, and I am proud to lead it.
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G.O.O.D. Music is just real tastemakers, man. Kanye's a real tastemaker. One thing that I feel is tight about G.O.O.D. is that a lot of people have their own style, and you can see that. My style is different than Pusha's, it's different than Cudi's. But it's also slightly similar 'cause we have some similar tastes.
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I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like that, which was what 'The Big Steal' and 'Spotswood' were about. But I guess that's the impression I left on people.
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There's nothing quite as powerful as people feeling they can have impact and make a difference. When you've got that going for you, I think it's a very powerful way to implement change.
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If you don't address race, then people are like, 'Why don't you talk about the elephant in the room?' But you have to do it right. It can't be gimmicky.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
