Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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These women, capable of the most sublime emotions, of the tenderest sympathies, were openmouthed and screaming. They wanted to live, they were helpless, likes rats in a trap, and they screamed.
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
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I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
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I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
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Things are always very last minute with fashion, and you always have to be ready and have to be prepared at all times.
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
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I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.
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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
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The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.
