Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Both 'Oz' and 'Homicide,' they're critically admired, so it's not like they're really neglected, but I wish they'd found bigger audiences.
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To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
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I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.
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If your business is really easy to do, don't gloat. You might be out of a job soon.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
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I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.
