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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In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
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The world tells us to be mean and bitter to survive. But I believe kindness is the very thing that makes us thrive.
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As we are brought into God's extraordinary kingdom through ordinary means, we are remade, no longer fashioned as competitors for commodities in a world of scarce resources, but as co-sharers with Christ in the circulation of gifts that flows outward from its source without running out.
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Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
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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.
