Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
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Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
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To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
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If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?
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A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone's got to make a wake up call.
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Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
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I'm a Cleveland Indian by birth.
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Brigitte Bardot is an icon, and her look is timeless. She is seen as one of the most beautiful women of all time. I feel very honored to be compared to her.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring.
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We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
