Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
Indira Gandhi
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
Jackie Cooper
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
Kapil Sibal
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I've had a few ditty hits.
Carlene Carter
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
Jack Ma
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
Barry Sanders
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
Kate Hudson
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Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.
Ralph Boston
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
Dana Goodyear
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
Tavi Gevinson
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
Damien Hirst
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
J. Paul Getty
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I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
Gaby Hoffmann
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
Abu Bakar Bashir
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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
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All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
Rachel Zoe
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I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
Jackie Robinson
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.
Ed Markey
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Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.
Nadia Ali
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Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
Banana Yoshimoto
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We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
Terence McKenna