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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You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.
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There is nothing so disturbing to one's well-being and judgment as to see a friend get rich
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Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.
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Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
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Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.
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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.
