Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.
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I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
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I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.
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Around them the gawping locals sat, amazed with an amazement that never grew less…
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The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.
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I am after ME his response on the question what he was after, in his sober painting in 1963 'Sun in an empty room'.
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The work I have done in private practice has been assisting companies and organizations to work with an incredibly complex federal government. I'm proud of the impact I've had for these organizations, including organizations here in Pinellas County.
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I'd rather go by bus.
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When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.
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I always loved cars. I used to play 'Need for Speed' all the time... any racing game.
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I'm a real hoarder.
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It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.
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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
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The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.
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When I was doing 'Scarface,' I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment.
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Some people say I was a thug and a gangster; other people remember me as a poet and a born leader. But I'm saying to you, measure a man by his actions fully, through his whole life, from the beginning to the end.
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What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
