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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Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.
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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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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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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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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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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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In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
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Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.
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The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.
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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.
