Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
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In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
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I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you're paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you're paying a quarterback? I don't know how to explain that stuff.
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If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.
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The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.
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At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
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I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place.
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Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.
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I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything.
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That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
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I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!
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There's the way modern music is produced, which is, 'Here's a piece of music, and I'm the producer, so pay me and make sure my credit is right and get me my splits.' But I'm trying to go backward. Now, it's more like 'What's the texture? What's the over-arching story?' There are more things to pay attention to than 'Is this the right snare?'
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Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.
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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
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The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.
