Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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It is absurd to look for perfection.
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I'm really, really emotional.
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
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You cannot deceive the mirror
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Sexual frustration' - it always sounds like the only frustrated ones are the ones who don't do it. What a laugh. The frustrated ones are the ones who do do it! The ones who don't can at least preserve some illusions.
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And the purpose is for God to experience his potential. God's ideas and abilities become God's experience in the life of every sentient being. What greater purpose could there be for each of us humans than that of creating God's experience? God experiences the richness of his potential through us because we are the incarnations of him in the physical realm.
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Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
