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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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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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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If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we stunt the growth of the soul. What God gives us is not necessarily "ours" but only ours to offer back to him, ours to relinguish, ours to lose, ours to let go of, if we want to be our true selves. Many deaths must go into reaching our maturity in Christ, many letting goes.
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I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
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America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.
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A prince should suspect everything.
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I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard and people are mean. And there's no president of England and I'm not British.
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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.
