Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Are you the strongest of all men, so strong that you can be merciful to me, a weak woman? Here is the undoing of your strength: I am not a weak woman. I am not a little queen. And your mercy will be your undoing.
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Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.
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When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.
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Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure' - grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.
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Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
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I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.
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After years of mass immigration, falling wages, and surging joblessness, isn't it time we focused on the needs of the people living here today? Isn't it time we got our own people back to work?
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I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons.
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Everybody wants to be on the field and show what they're capable of and help their football team win games.
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I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.
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I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me something to be passionate about.
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Pretty mundane closet, but a lot of ties. And I tend not to throw anything out, so I have a lot of clothes from all times from my life. I can be a little sentimental with things like that.
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I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.
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If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive.
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Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.
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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
