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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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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As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.
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While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.
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...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.
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I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That's all I can tell you.
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The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
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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.
