Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after.
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A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.
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I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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Long after I’m gone, people will have these paintings with dust and footprints in them. It will be something really special for people to enjoy and remember.
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I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
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I was in Germany when the wall came down.
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I have lived under the threat of death for a year now. And because of that, I have made choices. Listen to me. I alone should suffer the consequences of those choices, no one else. And those consequences, they're coming. No more prolonging the inevitable.
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Values are goals which behavior strives to realize. Any activity that is oriented towards an end is a value-oriented action. To the ancient Greeks, their culture was guided by an attainment of ‘the good life.’ In the early days of Christianity, the ‘good life’ was shifted from this lifetime into the next. Newtonian science and the modern era brought values under rational scrutiny, and a desire for empirical order. Modern capitalism introduced the value of ‘good’ as more production per capita, and ‘better’ as even more production. There is nothing in the sphere of culture which would exempt us from the realm of values—no facts floating around, ready to be grasped without valuations and expectations.
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I don't mind what they say as long as they're not being mean.
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I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.
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Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after.
