Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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Getting a family into work, supporting strong relationships, getting parents off drugs and out of debt - all this can do more for a child's well-being than any amount of money in out-of-work benefits.
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Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.
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I'm more of a people pleaser.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
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One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.
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I've been in California for about 15 years now. You're always in your car and insulated. I miss New York so much.
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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
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There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
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Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.
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Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
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Even though some heartless North Korean, Korean-Chinese, and Chinese citizens have exploited vulnerable defectors for money, I witnessed many acts of kindness by the Chinese.
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In Western Samoa native theory and vocabulary recognized the real pervert who was incapable of normal heterosexual response.
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If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
