Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
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One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.
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With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.
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Joe Frazier was the easiest boxer to work with that I ever trained.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.
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I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.
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When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.
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I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
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'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the film. It's so virgin and green, it's like God said 'lets try again' and he got it right this time!
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I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.
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Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
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It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.
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The best thing about a platform like YouTube is that it helps musicians all around the world to reach such a vast audience.
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Starch makes the gentleman, etiquette the lady.
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I know my age is a little older and some people might say, 'hey this guy's an old guy'. But I'm learning every day. I don't feel like an old guy. I feel like I'm young. I feel like I'm in there just learning so much stuff. I'm just doing a whole lot more different things than I was before.
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The difference between men and women is that women seek power in order to address issues, while men address issues in order to seek power.
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
