Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

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• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
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• Speed can't always get you wickets.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.

  

  Naomi Klein
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• After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
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• I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• I'm Glad that the Bush years are behind us

  

  Jackson Browne

• From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.

  

  Warren Farrell

• So spread the word cause I'm promoting my past until I'm passed out.

  

  Eminem
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• My ambition was not to create a new field, but I would have welcomed a permanent group of people having interests close to mine and therefore breaking the disastrous tendency towards increasingly well-defined fields. Unfortunately, I failed on this essential point, very badly. Order doesn't come by itself.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
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• I will never, ever forget the electricity I felt the first time I listened to the 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - and many times since.

  

  Betsy Hodges
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• The better the actor I am acting with, the better my performance gets.

  

  Ali Fazal

• I feel like people make such a big deal out of sexuality. It's so weird to me, because at the end of the day, it's just about soul connection. It's just about who you connect with.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
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• I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

  

  Maya Angelou
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• If people want to go do some big outdoor thing for their ego, have them climb snowy mountains rather than shoot animals.

  

  Conrad Anker
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• What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
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• At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.

  

  Joseph Bruchac
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• Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• John Pilger: I read that you were a vegetarian and you are seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Alan Clark: Yeah. John Pilger: Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?Alan Clark: Curiously not.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits

• An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.

  

  Terence McKenna
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