Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
If you play the cultural game, it's like playing only with clubs or something, or playing only with the red marked cards. You have to play with a full deck, and that includes this pre-linguistic surround in which we are embedded.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.
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The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
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I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how old we are, we realize we've been playing this game for a long time, but you know what? We're not done yet.
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I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
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Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
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Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.
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Being an actor is such a humiliating experience because you are selling yourself to the public, your face, your personality, and that is humiliating. As you get older, it becomes more humiliating because you've got less to sell.
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Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.
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Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.
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What I like about this team is that they're playing up. They're not playing scared, like they're waiting for the other shoe to drop. When they were 15-1 (last season), I got the feeling that they were waiting for it to end. They didn't know how long they could maintain it.
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'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music.
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People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.
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Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!
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But you’ve just never had better coffee than the fair-trade organic late-harvest darkest of dark roasts at a Voorpret espresso bar. And you don’t nuke that sort of thing from orbit. It’s just so hard to find a good cappuccino when you’re traveling.
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In order to significantly increase sales we have to increase the perception of value of the market for our products.
