Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
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High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.
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Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
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The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
