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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All I can say is that I've had too many people in the hip-hop industry really like what I'm doing. I know where I'm coming from, and the album speaks for itself.
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
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Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.
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From the R&B side, I've always been a huge Brian McKnight fan. He's just as talented as it gets vocally, and as a musician. I think it'd be real cool to do something with him.
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I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
