Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.
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I got a big mouth.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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I've been racketeered on.
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I'd like to consider myself a versatile skater and I like to skate to different kinds of music.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.
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I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
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When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.
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How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern.
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Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
