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 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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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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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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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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I think the emotional appeal of a platform is what works. I think the old-media entities still have not figured out that part of the game plan.
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History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
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It's not about giving back if you're successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: it's about your responsibility as an adult to help others.
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I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.
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Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
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I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.
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I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.
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It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.
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I don't find much influence in opera. It was such a different part of me.
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Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
