Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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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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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That's kind of a good equation.
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A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.
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I'd like to thank my parents for providing me with a high IQ & I'd like to thank my grams for encouraging me not to be a self absorbed idiot
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
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The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
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For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.
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I come from a minimum wage working world, as we all did for at least some part of our lives, and that is never out of my rearview. I've never forgotten how much your feet hurt after you've stood on them for like 12 hours. And how the drudgery of a job you hate craps on your entire life; how you treat other people, how you treat yourself, and it really was getting to me.
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Corporate competition is fierce, viewed by many as economic warfare where all is fair. But politics... now, this is something unique.
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I had an unusual college experience because I traveled the world while going to school at the same time. Now, to look back, I was very lucky.
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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
