Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.
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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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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.
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There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
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My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
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Cultural change is the statistical product of the separate behavioral responses of large numbers of human beings who cope as best they can with social existence.
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That part of the air which is nearest to the wing which presses on it, will have the greatest density.
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Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
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I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.
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I've had to calm down, I have a kid! It is amazing. It's the best thing ever. Nothing better than it.
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People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.
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Maybe we could find some way to send barges of trash to the sun and incinerate it all. Hey, it's an idea. It's an idea!
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I've been blessed enough to be on a great team, gone to the divisional round five years in a row or whatever it was. That's special. Not everybody gets an opportunity to do that.
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I hung out with the jocks. It doesn't mean I necessarily was one. I was just kind of there.
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I have a strong appreciation for oversize sweatshirts, loose mohair sweaters, and jeans that are frayed at the ankles.
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The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.
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To-day, whatever may annoy,The word for me is Joy, just simple Joy.
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The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
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Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
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Destiny's Child I grew up on hard core. Like, I can't tell you how much I love the three of them so much and what they had to offer.
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In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.
