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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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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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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In general, I don't really think too much about pacing, myself. You kind of look at each script and what each script demands.
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For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.
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The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives.
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I used to try and do backflips a lot, but I used to bang my head more often than not, so I gave it up.
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A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
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For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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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.
