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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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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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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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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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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We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
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I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
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When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it will be a great place.
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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.
