Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
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Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.
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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.
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Learn all the rules... then break them.
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
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Rod has always been like my third child and my most demanding boy out of the three.
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I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.
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My mother's incredible diaries, which she'd written from when she was 21, and even before that. She fell in love with my father when she was 12.
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When I'm on the pitch, I enjoy myself, and I try to give my all.
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The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.
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Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
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Make a list of the people in your 'choir'... If you're not on your own list, then you're doing something wrong.
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We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.
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We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
