Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
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I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
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There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.
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People will always make comparisons.
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There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.
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The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.
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When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.
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I never looked at basketball as work. I always enjoyed it as my hobby. I loved it. Once that love is gone, and I'm tired of working out every day and doing all the stuff to get me ready for games, and I'm tired of lifting and conditioning and doing all that other stuff around it, and I'd rather stay in bed, then it's time to go.
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I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.
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Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.
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I'm the guy coming from Juilliard.
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Our family are all very hard working.
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Everyone could use instructions on every aspect of cooking: pantry, storage, refrigeration, cooking, what to buy. Everyone that I come into contact with could use help.
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The image is a great reminder how we create our world through interpretations made up of language and symbols. Our language and symbols are always incomplete versions of a greater reality. Here is why inquiry is such a powerful tool when compared to simple advocacy. Inquiry allows us to discover what might be outside the cave instead of arguing about the shadows on the wall.
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We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.
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It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them.
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Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
