Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
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The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.
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We state with a unified voice that religions through which Almighty God sought to bring happiness to mankind should not be turned into instruments to cause misery,
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I remember shooting a show in Australia and I was having to leave and come home all the time. And I remember I was leaving for two months and I wept for like 12 hours on the plane because I wasn’t going to get to see him. So yes. I can relate to the young love thing. … But it was only four years - and not that many boyfriends ago.
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Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.
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I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
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I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.
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You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.
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The silver lining of the Trump presidency is it is an era of activism, and one where women really want to be heard.
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There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.
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My job as an actor is to cover and expose in varying allowance that - so that the audience can peek through the window to the people I create.
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I'm told I was born in Canada, but I was adopted, and I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts.
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
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I'm a huge Emile Zola fan, and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before I'd even read a word of the script.
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Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
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Every black comedian in the country knew what I could do. But that doesn't mean everyone else is paying attention.
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We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.
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I love you who listen to me and my good paper which is left at the end of my game.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
