Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
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To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
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I can say with absolute certainty I do not cheat. I am not a magician.
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Religion, virtually without fail, provides the army at war with its blessings, and recruits from among its officials the chaplain, who in military costume counsels and consoles and stiffens the morale of men at war.
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'When one deals with the Murthe, the unthinkable becomes the ordinary, and Zanzel's repute carries no more weight than last year's mouse-dropping - if that much.'
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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I felt perhaps 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' was a little premature. It was a huge hit around the world - it was still running in the theatres - and the Americans at that time were already shooting the remake, and I was like, 'Whoa! Give it a break of five or six years and get a little inspired, and then do it.'
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I love women.
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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
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It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
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The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
