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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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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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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I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy. It's the home of British comedy.
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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
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The beauty of being a curvier girl is that we're all shaped so differently.
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Everybody has a say, everybody has a voice, because everyone that comes to the House had about 750,000 people they're representing . And you want those voices heard.
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I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.
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The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
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Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually the 74th white one. And never mind all this talk about America electing its first black President; Barack Obama is actually the 44th white man to hold the job.
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My mom is a Sikh immigrant born in a refugee camp. My Irish-Swedish-Norwegian-Danish-English-American dad grew up Baptist.
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The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing...
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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.
